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<b>From Denny:</b> The past few months even <i>I</i> just can't watch <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe"><b><span style="color: red;">Morning Joe</span></b></a>, usually a pretty good political show - representing both major parties and views - for which I have much forbearance watching Joe go off and jump up on his usual soapbox for a too long of a monologue. The entire round table are now myopic, living in an echo chamber of gloom and doom, too grumpy, too negative for not good enough reasons, and just plain cranky old men - and one cranky women too influenced by their negativity. Not very attractive, guys. They have gotten lost in the weeds with far too much naval gazing on minutiae that the voters have no use for at all. Grabbed the remote and changed the channel. <br />
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Been changing the channel on <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/hardball"><b><span style="color: red;">Hardball</span></b></a>, though not as often. All these shows want to do is show Donald Trump screaming yet some other stupid statement and then talk it to death, beat it back alive enough to catch a few breaths before expiring, and then beat it yet again. I'll tell you what: I'll walk on to your sets and gift you with a dead horse so the viewers get a better visual of how stupid this all looks...<br />
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I<b>t's never smart to promote constant hate programming. </b> That's exactly what today's generation of media is promoting. Oh, they are fine on not hating gays, Muslims, blacks or cute little kids. But when it comes to challenging this <a href="https://atruthjournal.blogspot.com/2016/08/hillary-clinton-favorite-chew-toy-of.html"><b><span style="color: red;">constant stream of BS about Hillary Clinton</span></b> </a>it's downright alarming. For years the drum beat has been: "Hate Hillary! Lock her up! Hang the bitch!" as chanted often, loud and long at the Trump rallies. Even young children are screaming the same sentiments. You really have to ask yourself about this fascism going on in the Republican Party.<br />
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Fast forward to any Republican commentator: "I hate Hillary Clinton and always will!" Talk about never getting a fair hearing, a fair hearing, mind you, that she would be respectful and give to them. <br />
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When any Republican politician or Republican voter is asked: "Why do you hate Hillary Clinton?"<br />
The answer is always, "I don't trust her." <br />
"Why don't you trust her?"<br />
"She lies."<br />
"Can you prove it?"<br />
"She's a big liar, that's it!" comes the reply.<br />
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<b>Yet when you look at Donald Trump, he has literally lied about <i>every</i> subject he has talked about since he started his campaign. </b> How can they distrust Hillary Clinton but trust Donald Trump based upon who they have been told is the liar? It's bizarre. Not much critical thinking going on here, that's for sure, even among journalists.<br />
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<b>It's like a mass hysteria with these Republican folks. It's the <i>exact same</i> sales talk.</b> Even their eyes glaze over like they've been hypnotized. I live in Louisiana, traditionally, a so-called "red" state. It's possible Louisiana may go blue this season. We have already elected a Democrat as Governor after the dismal mess a Republican Governor left our state financially. Hillary might want to spend some time campaigning here by early October. People here love to see a candidate come visit often to check on them and hear a candidate respect them enough to ask for their vote just as often.<br />
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<b>Fascism and Hate: The average Republican voter has no cogent facts to back up the brainwashing programming they've been getting out of the Republican strategists and leadership for the past 30 years. It's ridiculous.</b><br />
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<b>Now that a crazy and crass candidate like Trump has emerged at the top of the Republican ticket, all the fascist tendencies the Republican Party has hidden so well for decades is finally exposed.</b><br />
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<b>Trump told his rally crowd of "Second Amendment people" to go out and kill Hillary Clinton.</b> "You <i>know</i> what to do! You know what I'm talking about of what it will take to stop Hillary Clinton from taking your guns. Don't let her. Don't let her do it!"<br />
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<b>Trump also instructed his people, like Nazi brown shirts, to go the polls on election day to protect their vote.</b> Really? "You know you need to go there, along with the police and sheriffs to protect the vote so we don't get a rigged election." That statement was code to all the black people and perhaps Hispanics too. It was code for the police are going to harass you and check out if you have any outstanding warrants and arrest you. <b>Trump is promoting fear and voter intimidation against people of color in order to win. </b><br />
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<b>And then there is just the usual violence at the Trump rallies that he refuses to stop. </b>There are always fist fights. As Trump himself says when he is vexed with a protester, "Sometimes I'd just like to hit them in the mouth, you know, bam!"<br />
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<b>Let's not forget his thug, mafia style lawyer, who threatened to kill a journalist.</b> That was priceless. There's also another mob guy in Trump's campaign that held a gun to the knee of a campaign worker while driving in the car, threatening him too. That now former worker is suing.<br />
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<b>Trump is also fond of inciting the rally crowd to hate journalists, always pointing to the press area. </b> It gets so bad many of these journalists felt the crowd was about to turn on them. At one rally, a female journalist was escorted out by a Secret Service guy on Trump's team. He thought it ridiculous what Trump had done and offered her safety.<br />
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<b>Trump tries to use the press as his go-to scapegoat in case he doesn't like anything written about him that is not dropping down and worshiping at his feet like his hypnotized supporters.</b> He also says the press lies when the press finds out his latest lies have no truth to back them up. Trump's strategy to destroy the credibility of the press is so he can finger point and say, "See! I told you it's a rigged election!"<br />
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<b>Manipulating people's minds like this is cruel indeed. It also does nothing constructive for the country to move us forward dealing with serious issues.</b> While 110,000 people were flooded out in our homes and small businesses here in Baton Rouge, my fellow journalists knocked this scary, odd disaster off the front page nationally to chase after the latest lie from Donald Trump. It seriously delayed the help thousands needed. You looked ridiculous and certainly insensitive. <b>People lost everything they knew in one short day.</b> People here lost their entire homes, all their cars and ran out of food waiting for the flood waters to go down. I'll say that again: <b>You looked absolutely freaking ridiculous!</b><br />
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<b>Quit promoting the hate agenda, like hating in politics is a good occupation. </b> It isn't. It promotes so much discord that eventually turns to violence and more hating. Quit promoting this fascism that Trump and his campaign are wallowing in with great delight. It's one thing to highlight it from time to time in the news as counterproductive to the voting process. It's quit another when all you do is repeat it to the point of annoyance that has the effect to help hold the brainwashing propaganda in place. <br />
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<b>Free the American soul from this negativity.</b> The voters have told the press in every election cycle for more than 30 years, "I don't want to hear all this negativity! Stop!" And yet you keep delivering it. <b>When are you going to wake up and realize you are promoting hate and a fascist agenda to take over American politics? The world looks to us for reason, steadfastness and a commitment to truth. </b> You are scaring them all.<br />
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<b>From Denny: </b>The FBI Director said that only three out of 30,000 deleted emails were classified,<a href="http://www.msnbc.com/andrea-mitchell-reports/watch/clinton-responds-to-fbi-director-s-testimony-738897475886"> <b><span style="color: red;">devoid of the appropriate markings labeling them as classified.</span></b></a> Later that was revised to 100 emails not properly labeled as classified. <b>After she was out of office those emails were later classified. Well, if she did not know they were going to be classified in the future how was she responsible for them before their classification?</b><br />
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As Clinton stated: If you have worked in the federal government and an email is classified it usually has a huge warning heading at the top of the email to let the recipient know the obvious. <b>None of these emails mentioned by the FBI Director contained such a warning heading about classification.</b><br />
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<b>The FBI Director, a staunch Republican, who you know received tremendous pressure from his party to put Hillary in jail, had to admit she did nothing criminally wrong.</b> Well, at least he had the good character to put the Truth where it belonged. Did he think her unwise? Sure. <b>She took responsibility for using two servers in order to preserve her family's privacy both from the press and political enemies hell bent on crucifying her. She gets it now.</b><br />
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<b>Of course, the irony here is that her server was never hacked or compromised by a foreign state like Russia or China.</b> <b>Guess who was? ...</b><br />
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The very people hell bent on trying to jail her were all hacked and seriously compromised: the Republican Party headquarters was hacked as was the Democrat Party. The FBI, the State Department, the Pentagon, the White House, various federal government agencies like the hack that took records of over 40 million former and current federal personnel were all perpetrated by foreign actors, notably Russia and China.<br />
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<b>Now why should we be all terrified and shaking in our boots at the horrific thought that Hillary's server <i>might </i>have been hacked when the reality is that her accusers were <i>all </i>compromised to a person?</b><br />
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<b>For thirty years the press and the determined political enemies have tried to make something out of virtually nothing when it comes to Hillary Clinton. </b> We all know that the Republican predecessors of Hillary, Gen. Colin Powell and Condi Rice, did the same thing, had private servers. Yet when the FBI came knocking on their doors they were blown off and so the investigators did not persist. <b>Clearly, Republicans get preferential treatment as opposed to Democrats in investigations with this FBI Director.</b><br />
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<b>When you stop to think about this Republican political vendetta of thirty years and more <span style="color: red;">you really have to ask what the hell is going on here</span> to keep up this hate - and so vociferously, stirred up and perpetuated by the press? Isn't it time for this style of vicious unfounded politics to end? Isn't it time for the press to quit contributing to it just to sell market share? How depraved is that attitude? Is it really worthy of our country when there are so very many issues that need media attention and proper scrutiny?</b><br />
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<b>Let me share a thought with you. Well, you got this far into this article, didn't you? You didn't think I'd just leave you hanging? </b> I'm fed up with various members of the press behaving in such a self-important and smug manner, as if they were appointed God to judge people like Hillary Clinton. Who? Plenty of them, notably today on Morning Joe was that guy <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/michael-wolff-hillarys-delusion-trumps-916733"><b><span style="color: red;">Michael Wolff,</span></b></a> from the Hollywood Reporter, a self-appointed expert and <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/howard-fineman"><b><span style="color: red;">Howard Fineman</span></b></a>, from the Huffington Post, as smug and obnoxious as ever. Their ability for critical thinking is so very limited, yet they couch everything in this emotional expert attitude, hoping they can fool enough people to swallow their drivel. Why anyone keeps either of them is beyond me. They are both dinosaurs.<br />
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<b>The Enemies of Hillary Clinton and Their "Accomplishments"</b><br />
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<b>For over thirty years, the Republicans have successfully held down wages in this country in order to please their billionaire donor class that keeps them in office.</b> For thirty years, the <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/obama-pushes-minimum-wage-hike-slams-gop-saying-no-everything#52626"><b><span style="color: red;">Republicans have denied the average American a living wage on the minimum wage</span></b>.</a> How ridiculous is it that people have to work several jobs just to put a roof over their heads and pay minimum bills?<br />
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<b>It's the Republicans that like to wreck the American economy. How?</b> <b><a href="http://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/glenn-beck-liberals-you-were-right"><span style="color: red;">Too quick to wage war.</span></a></b> Their famous Iraq and Afghan Wars just about broke this economy, sending it into a tail spin. The Republicans broke the Middle East, lit it on fire, and then said, "Who me? I didn't do that. That's Obama and Hillary's fault." Seriously? Obama has spent the past eight years trying to clean up that Republican hot mess decision to lie to the American people about why they went to war and then spend trillions of dollars waging war all to please their defense contractor class who keep them in office. <br />
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<b>For decades Republicans have denied civil rights to the LGBT community, arguing they know best, selling religion as their excuse for their cultural discomfort for someone else's dire need. </b> Really? Let me share yet another thought with you. It's smarter to help culturally fringed minority communities know they are accepted instead of the alternative. <br />
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<b>What is the alternative?</b> <b>When a group or marginalized individual does not feel accepted they enter into the deepest of dark inner conflict. That conflict often spills out onto the stage of violence, impacting the greater community.</b> You saw that with the Orlando shooter, a gay Muslim, who was culturally in conflict, not accepted, unable to reconcile his reality with his religion, his culture. So, he lashed out violently, trying to feel better by attacking others. Twisted thinking, true enough, but that is what happens when people are pressed into a dark small lonely place of pressured inner conflict. Sooner or later they feel compelled to do something to relieve that awful pressure.<br />
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<b>Republicans have repeatedly refused to accept and legislate wage equality for women for over 40 years, denying every bill the Democrats put up.</b> Is it any wonder this country is seething with so much anger in this presidential election year? When is anything positive going to get down for mainstream America and the middle class instead of the wealthy and corporations?<br />
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<b>Don't even get me started on justice reform for the black community. </b> <b>Republicans have refused extra funding for proper community policing that is far less confrontational than this generation's police training of Dirty Harry tactics that are simply not funny.</b><br />
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S<b>o, fellow journalists, you need to do some serious soul searching, those of you who still have possession of your souls and haven't sold out just for money and fame. </b> <b>What is your proper focus? Is it on trying to prove a decent person like Hillary Clinton is guilty of nefarious acts and deserves jail? Is it on truly informing the public and the voter of what they need to know to carry on their daily business and be well informed enough to vote well?</b><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/obama-democrats-champion-real-people-not-phony-scandals"><span style="color: red;">The press should be focused upon what the voters want</span></a>, not political enemies who are clearly incensed that Hillary Clinton's decades of good deeds and challenging the negative status quo just make them look bad in comparison.</b> That's the real truth here. Fellow journalists, you look really really <i>really </i>bad doing the bidding of petty political enemies that will come and go when it is the truth that remains. Stick to the whole truth and you just might even look good doing it.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>From Denny:</b> Who knows you - as the reality you - better than your spouse? Well, former President Bill Clinton knocked it out of the park with his version of "the spouse speech" for a presidential candidate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">While some of the younger female commentators took the obtuse perspective and frowned upon Bill's speech as the only way to tell Hillary's story was to center it around Bill's life, most commentators understood what he was really doing with the chronicled narrative of Hillary's adult life once she and Bill met and joined forces to do good in the world. In fact, Bill Clinton did a great job of doing the Hillary campaign's job for them: opening a window into their private world to allow the public to know about the evolution of and entirety of Hillary..</span>.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Many times it is difficult for public figures to speak about their private relationships so publicly, especially on a romantic level. Bill Clinton put it out there anyway. He has certainly mellowed since he left office, greatly matured - and it's a good thing to see his personal growth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Bill Clinton made it clear that Hillary was a slow sell for marriage. What the public can derive from that story is that Hillary is not one to jump into serious situations without some deep thinking about the commitments involved, knowing long term is a long time. It also told you that Bill Clinton had to work hard to get her. That says that Hillary does not sell herself short or cheaply and has plenty of self-worth and confidence. Those are traits young girls can look up to and admire.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">What was best about this speech is that Bill Clinton illuminated some areas of Hillary's life that those that know her well take for granted and just forget to extol as special. Hillary is no Johnny Come Lately to children's issues and disability rights. She has been working on tough societal issues since law school. She took an extra year for law school because she was working with children in poverty, determined to figure out how to make their lives better. She has been involved in doing this for over 40 years to this day, never stopping to make someone else's life better. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Many other speeches at the 2016 Democrat National Convention from ordinary people tell you how she has worked to make their lives better, from a 911 burn victim to a young man who has endured over 20 years of surgeries. Hillary still keeps in touch with these people decades later to check on their progress and well being. Can you see Donald Trump caring that much and doing the same? Yeah, me neither.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Bill Clinton told a narrative that many seasoned journalists did not know. You would think you would know all there is to know about the Clintons after all these years of caustic rhetoric and investigations that never were able to prove any guilt. Bill Clinton proved there is always more to know, more to smile about, and more to appreciate about the three dimensional person as opposed to the flat cartoon version the Republican war machine continues to falsely sell the American public.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Hillary isn't interested in advancing the TPP trade agreement. What she wants to accomplish for her first term is an ambitious project of putting Americans to work to completely revamp America's deteriorating infrastructure. Works for me. Geaux Hillary!</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Take a read of the full transcript or listen to the full speech video, your choice:</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>President Bill Clinton: </b> <span style="font-family: inherit;">In the spring of 1971, I met a girl. The first time I saw her, we were, appropriately enough, in a class on political and civil rights. She had thick blond hair, big glasses. Wore no makeup. And she exuded this strength of self-possession I found magnetic.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">After the class, I followed her out, intending to introduce myself. I got close enough to touch her back, but I couldn’t do it. Somehow, I knew this would not be just another tap on the shoulder, that I might be starting something I couldn’t stop. I saw her several more times the next few days but still didn’t speak to her. Then one night in the law library talking to a classmate who wanted me to join the Yale Law Journal, he said it would guarantee me a job at a big firm or a clerkship with a federal judge. I really wasn’t interested — I just wanted to go home to Arkansas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Then I saw the girl again, standing at the opposite end of that long room. Finally, she was staring back at me. So I watched her. She closed her book, put it down, and started walking toward me. She walked the whole length of the library, came up to me, and said, “Look, if you are going to keep staring at me, we at least ought to know each other’s name. I’m Hillary Rodham, who are you?” I was so impressed and surprised that, whether you believe it or not, momentarily, I was speechless.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Finally, I sort of blurted out my name and we exchanged a few words, and she went away. Well, I didn’t join the Law Review, but I did leave that library with a whole new goal in mind. A couple days later, I saw her again, wearing a long, white, flowery skirt, and I went up to her and she said she was going to register for classes for the next term. I said I would go too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We stood in line and talked — you had to do that to register back then. I thought I was doing pretty well until we got to the front of the line and the registrar looked up and said, “Bill, what are you doing here? You registered this morning.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I turned red and she laughed that big laugh of hers and I thought, well, heck, since my cover has been blown, I asked her to take a walk down to the art museum. We have been walking, and talking, and laughing together ever since.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And we have done it in good times, through joy and heartbreak. We cried together this morning on the news that our good friend and a lot of your good friend, Mark Weiner, passed away early this morning. We built up a lifetime of memories. After the first month and that first walk, I drove her home to Park Ridge, Illinois, to meet her family and see the town where she grew up, a perfect example of post-World War II middle-class America. Street after street of nice houses, great schools, good parks, a big public swimming pool. And almost all white.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I really liked her family, her crusty, conservative father, her rambunctious brothers, all extolling the virtue of rooting for the bears and the cubs. And for the people of Illinois here, they even told me what waiting for next year meant — could be next year, guys.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Now, her mother was different. She was more liberal than the boys. She had a childhood that made mine look like a piece of cake. She was easy to underestimate with her soft manner and she reminded me all over again of the truth of that old saying that you should never judge a book by its cover. Knowing her was one of the greatest gifts Hillary ever gave me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I learned that Hillary got her introduction to social justice through her Methodist youth minister, Don Jones. He took her downtown to Chicago to hear Martin Luther King Jr. speak and he remained her friend for the rest of his life. This will be the only campaign of hers he ever missed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">When she got to college, her opposition to the Vietnam War compelled her to change parties and become a Democrat. And then between college and law school, on a total lark, she went alone to Alaska and spent time sliming fish.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">More to the point, by the time I met her she had already been involved in the law school’s legal services project and she had been influenced by Marian Wright Edelman. She took a summer internship interviewing workers in migrant camps for Sen. Walter Mondale’s subcommittee. She had also begun working in the Yale New Haven hospital to develop procedures to handle suspected child abuse cases.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">She got so involved in children’s issues that she actually took an extra year in law school working at the child studies center to learn what more could be done to improve the lives and futures of poor children. She was already determined to figure out how to make things better.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Hillary opened my eyes to a whole new world of public service by private citizens. In the summer of 1972, she went to Dothan, Alabama, to visit one of those segregated academies that enrolled over a half a million white kids in the South. The only way the economics worked was if they claimed federal tax exemptions to which they were not legally entitled. She got sent to prove they weren’t.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So she sauntered into one of these academies all by herself, pretending to be a housewife that just moved to town and needed to find a school for her son. And they exchange pleasantries and finally, she said, “Look, let’s get to the bottom line. If I enroll my son in this school, will he be in a segregated school? Yes or no?” And the guy said “Absolutely.” She had him. I’ve seen it a thousand times since.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And she went back and her encounter was part of a report that gave Marian Wright Edelman the force they needed to keep working to get the Nixon administration to take those tax exemptions away and give our kids access to an equal education.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Then she went down to South Texas, where she met one of the nicest fellows I ever met, the wonderful union leader Franklin Garcia, and he helped her register Mexican-American voters. I think some of them are still around to vote for her in 2016. And then, in our last year in law school, Hillary kept up this work. She went to South Carolina to see why so many young African-American boys — I mean, <em class="markup--em markup--p-em" style="box-sizing: inherit;">young</em> teenagers — were being jailed for years with adults in men’s prisons. She filed a report on that, which led to some changes too. Always making things better.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Meanwhile, let’s get back to business. I was trying to convince her to marry me. I first proposed to her on a trip to Great Britain, the first time she’d ever been overseas. We were on the shoreline of this wonderful lake, Lake Ennerdale. I asked her to marry me and she said, “I can’t do it.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So in 1974, I went home to teach in law school and Hillary moved to Massachusetts to keep working on children’s issues. This time, trying to figure out why so many kids counted in the census weren’t enrolled in school.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">She found one of them sitting alone on her porch in a wheelchair. Once more, she filed a report about these kids and that helped influence ultimately the Congress to adopt the proposition that children with disabilities, physical or otherwise, should have equal access to public education. You saw the result of that last night when Anastasia Somoza talked. She never made fun of people with disabilities. She tried to empower them based on their abilities.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Meanwhile, I was still trying to get her to marry me. The second time I asked, I tried a different tactic. I said, “I really want you to marry me, but you shouldn’t do it.” She smiled and looked at me like what is this boy up to. She said, “That is not a very good sales pitch.” I said, “I know but it’s true.” And I meant it. It was true. I said, “I know most of the young Democrats our age who want to go into politics, they mean well and they speak well, but none of them is as good as you are at actually doing things to make positive changes in people’s lives.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So I suggested she go home to Illinois or move to New York and look for a chance to run for office. She laughed and said, “Are you out of your mind? Nobody would ever vote for me.” So I finally got her to come visit me in Arkansas. And when she did, the people at the law school were so impressed, they offered her a teaching position. And she decided to take a huge chance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">She moved to a strange place, more rural and conservative than anywhere she had been. Where she knew good and well that people were wondering what in the world she was like and whether they could or should accept her. Didn’t take them long to find out what she was like.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">She loved her teaching. She got frustrated when one of her students said, “What do you expect, I’m just from Arkansas.” She said, “Don’t tell me that. You’re as smart as anybody. You just have to believe in yourself and work for it and set high goals.” She believed anyone could make it. She also started the first legal aid clinic in northwest Arkansas, providing legal aid services to poor people who couldn’t pay for them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">One day, I was driving her to the airport to fly back to Chicago when we passed this little brick house that had a for-sale sign on it and she said, “Boy, that’s a pretty house.” It had 1,100 square feet, an attic fan and no air conditioner in hot Arkansas, and a screened-in porch. Hillary commented on what a uniquely designed and beautiful house it was.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So I took a big chance. I bought the house. My mortgage was $175 a month. When she came back, I picked her up and said, “You remember that house you like?” I said, “While you were gone, I bought it, and you have to marry me now.” The third time was the charm. We were married in that little house on October 11, 1975. I married my best friend.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I was still in awe after more than four years of being around her at how smart, and strong, and loving, and caring she was, and I really hoped that her choosing me and rejecting my advice to pursue her own career was a decision she would never regret. A little over a year later, we moved to Little Rock when I became attorney general and she joined the oldest law firm west of the Mississippi. She started Arkansas Advocates for Family and Children. It’s a group that is still active today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In 1979, just after I became governor, I asked Hillary to chair a local health committee to help expand health care to isolated mountain areas. They recommended to do that partly by deploying trained nurse practitioners in places with no doctors to provide primary care that they were trying to provide.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It was a big deal then — highly controversial and very important. And I got the feeling that what she did for the rest of her life, she was doing there. She just went out and figured out what would help people and if it was controversial, she just tried to persuade people it was the right thing to do. It wasn’t the only big thing that happened that spring, my first year as governor. We found out we were going to be parents.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And time passed. On February 27, 1980, 15 minutes after I got home from the National Governors’ Conference in Washington, Hillary’s water broke, and off we went to the hospital. Chelsea was born just before midnight. And it was the greatest moment of my life. The miracle of a new beginning. The hole filled for me because my own father died before I was born and I had the absolute conviction that my daughter had the best mother in the whole world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Through nursing school, kindergarten, T-ball, soccer, volleyball, and her passion for ballet. Through sleepovers, summer camps, family vacations, and Chelsea’s own very ambitious excursions, from Halloween parties in the neighborhood to a Viennese waltz gala in the White House, Hillary first and foremost was a mother. She became, as she often said, our family’s designated worrier. Born with an extra responsibility gene.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We rarely disagreed on parenting ,although she did believe that I had gone a little over the top when I took a couple days off with Chelsea to watch all six<em class="markup--em markup--p-em" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Police Academy</em> movies back to back. When Chelsea was 9 months old, I was defeated for reelection in the Reagan landslide and I became overnight, I think, the youngest former governor in the history of the country. We only had two-year terms back then.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Hillary was great. Immediately she said, “What are we gonna do? Here is what we are going to do: We’re gonna get a house, you’re gonna get a job, we’re gonna enjoy being Chelsea’s parents, and if you want to run again you have to go talk to people and figure out why you lost, tell them you got the message, and show them you still have good ideas.” I followed her advice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Within two days we had a house. I soon had a job. We had two fabulous years with Chelsea and in 1982, I became the first governor in the history of our state to become elected, defeated, and elected again. My experience is, it’s a pretty good thing to follow her advice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The rest of the decade flew by it as our lives settled into a rhythm of family and work and friends. In 1983, Hillary chaired a committee to recommend new education standards for us in response to a court order to equalize school funding.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And a report by national experts said our woefully underfunded schools were the worst in America. Typical Hillary, she held listening tours in all 75 counties with our committee. She came up with really ambitious recommendations. For example, that we be the first state in America to require elementary counselors in every school because so many kids were having trouble at home and they needed it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So I called the legislature into session, hoping to pass the standards, pass the pay rate for teachers, and raise the sales tax to pay for it all. I knew it would be hard to pass, but it got easier after Hillary headed the education committee and the chairman, a plainspoken farmer, said, “It looks to me like we elected the wrong Clinton.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Well, by the time I ran for president nine years later, the same expert who said we had the worst schools in America said that our state was one of the two most improved states in America — and that is because of those standards that Hillary recommended.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Now, two years later, Hillary told me about a preschool program developed in Israel, called HIPPY: Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters. The idea was to teach low-income parents, even those who couldn’t read, to be their children’s first teachers. She said she thought it would work in Arkansas. I said, “That’s great, what are we going to do about it?” She said, “I already did it. I called the woman in Israel and she’ll be here in about 10 days to help us get started.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Next thing you know, I’m being dragged around to all these little preschool graduations. Keep in mind this is before many states even had universal kindergarten, and I’m being dragged to preschool graduations, watching these poor parents with tears in their eyes because they never thought they would be able to help their kids learn.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Twenty years of research has shown how well this program works to improve readiness for schools and academic achievement. There are a lot of young adults in America who have no idea Hillary had anything to do with it, but are enjoying better lives because they were in that program.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">She did all of this while being a full-time worker, a mother, and enjoying our life. Why? Well, she is insatiably curious, she’s a natural leader, she’s a good organizer, and she’s the best darn change-maker I have ever met in my entire life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So, look, this is a really important point for you to take out of this convention. If you believe in making change from the bottom up, if you believe the measure of change is how many lives are bettered, you know it is hard and some people think it is boring. Speeches like this are fun. Actually doing the work is hard. So people say, well, we need to change.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">She has been around a long time. She sure has. And she has sure been worth every single year she has put into making people’s lives better. I can tell you this — if you were sitting where I am sitting and you heard what I have heard and at every dinner conversation, every lunch conversation, on every long walk, you would say, “This woman has never been satisfied with the status quo in anything.” She always wants to move the ball forward. That is just who she is.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">When I became president with a commitment to reform health care, Hillary was a natural head to the health care task force. You all know we failed because we couldn’t break a Senate filibuster. Hillary immediately went to work on solving the problems the bill sought to address one by one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The most important goal was to get more children with health insurance. In 1997, Congress passed the Children’s Health Insurance Program, still an important part of President Obama’s Affordable Care Act. It insures more than 8 million kids. There are a lot of other things in that bill she got done piece by piece, pushing the rock up the hill.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In 1997, she also teamed with the House minority leader, Tom DeLay, who maybe disliked me more than any of Newt Gingrich’s crowd. They worked on a build together to increase adoptions of children out of foster care. She wanted to do it because she knew that Tom, for all of our differences, was an adopted parent and she honored him for doing that. The bill that they worked on was passed with an overwhelming bipartisan majority and led to a big increase of children out of foster care, including not infant kids and special needs kids. It made life better, because she is a change-maker. That is what she does.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Now, when you are doing all of this, real life does not stop. 1997 was the year Chelsea finished high school and went to college. We were happy for her but sad for us to see her go. I will never forget moving her into her dorm room at Stanford. It would have been a great little reality flick. There I was, in a trance, just staring out the window trying not to cry, and there was Hillary on her hands and knees, desperately looking for one more drawer to put that liner paper in. Finally, Chelsea took charge and told us ever so gently that it was time for us to go. So, we closed a big chapter in the most important work of our lives. As you will see Thursday night, when Chelsea speaks, Hillary has done a pretty fine job of being a mother. And as you saw last night beyond a shadow of a doubt, so has Michelle Obama.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Now fast-forward, in 1999, congressman Charlie Rangel and other Democrats urged Hillary to run for the seat of retiring senator Pat Moynihan. We had always intended to go to New York after I left office and commute to Arkansas, but this had never occurred to either one of us. Hillary had never run for office before but she decided to give it a try. She began her campaign the way she always does things, by listening and learning. And after a tough battle, New York elected her to the seat once held by another outsider, Robert Kennedy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And she did not let him down. Her early years were dominated by 9/11. By working to find the recovery. Then monitoring the health of and providing compensation to victims and first- and second-responders. She and Sen. Shuman were tireless and so were the house members.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In 2003, partly spurred on by what they were going through, she became the first senator in the history of New York ever to serve on the Armed Services Committee. So she tried to make sure people on the battlefield had proper equipment. She tried to expand, and did expand, health care coverage to members of the National Guard. She got longer family leave working with Senator Dodd for people caring for wounded servicemembers and she worked for more extensive care for people with traumatic brain injury.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">She also served on a special Pentagon commission to propose changes necessary to meet our new security challenges. Newt Gingrich was on that commission. He told me what a good job she had done. I say that because nobody who has seriously dealt with the men and women in today’s military believes they are a “disaster.” They are a national treasure of all races, all religions, all walks of life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Now, meanwhile, she compiled a really solid record, totally progressive, on economic and social issues. She voted for him against a proposed trade deal. She became the de facto economic development officer for the area outside of New York City. She worked for farmers, for winemakers, for small businesses and manufacturers. For upstate cities and rural areas that needed more ideas and more new investment to create new jobs. Something we have to do again in small town and rural America, in neighborhoods that of been left behind to our cities, in Indian country, and, yes, in coal country.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">When she lost the hard-fought contest to President Obama in 2008, she worked for his election hard. But she hesitated to say yes when he asked her to join his Cabinet, because she so loved being a senator from New York. So like me, in a different context, he had to keep asking. But as we all saw and heard from Madeleine Albright, it was worth the effort and worth the wait.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">As secretary of state, she worked hard to get strong sanctions against Iran’s nuclear program. And in what the Wall Street Journal called a “half-court shot at the buzzer,” she got Russia and China to support them. Her team negotiated the new START treaty with Russia to reduce nuclear weapons and establish inspections. And she got enough Republican support to get two thirds of the senate, the vote necessary to ratify the treaty.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">She flew all night long from Cambodia to the Middle East to get a ceasefire that would avoid a full-out shooting war between Hamas and Gaza, to protect the peace of the region. She backed President Obama’s decision to go after Osama bin Laden. She launched a team — and this is really important today — she launched a team to fight back against terrorists online and built a new global counterterrorism effort. We have got to win this battle. In the mine field.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">She put climate change at the center of our foreign policy. She negotiated the first agreement ever with China and India, officially committed to reduce their emissions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And as she had been doing since she went to Beijing in 1995 and said, “Women’s rights are human rights and human rights are women’s rights,” she worked to empower women and girls around the world and to make the same exact declaration on behalf of the LGBT community in America and around the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And, nobody ever talks about this much — nobody ever talks about this much, but it is important to me. She tripled the number of people with AIDS in four countries whose lives are being saved with your tax dollars. Most of them in Africa, going from 1.7 million lives to 5.1 million lives and it did not cost you any more money. She just bought available FDA-approved generic drugs, something we need to do for the American people more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Now, you do not know any of these people. You don’t know any of these 3.4 million people, but I guarantee, they know you. They know you because they see you as thinking their lives matter. They know you, and that’s one reason the approval of the United States was 20 points higher when she left the Secretary of State’s office than when she took it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Now, how does this square? How does this square with the things that you heard at the Republican convention? What is the difference in what I told you and what they said? How do you square it? You can’t. One is real, the other is made up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And you just have to decide which is which, my fellow Americans. The real one had done more positive change-making before she was 30-years-old than most politicians do with a lifetime in office. The real one, if you saw her friend Betsy Ebeling from Illinois today, has friends from childhood through Arkansas, where she has not lived for more than 20 years, who have gone all across America at their own expense to fight for the person they know.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The real one has earned the loyalty and respect and the fervent support of people who have worked with her in every stage of her life, including leaders around the world who know her to be able, straightforward, and completely trustworthy. The real one calls you when you’re sick, when your kid’s in trouble, or when there is a death in the family. The real one repeatedly drew praise from prominent Republicans when she was a senator and secretary of state.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So what is up with this? Well, if you win elections, on the theory the government is always bad and will mess up a two-car parade — a real change-maker represents a real threat. So your only option is to create a cartoon. A cartoon alternative. Then run against the cartoon. Cartoons are two-dimensional. They’re easy to absorb. Life in the world is complicated and real change is hard. And a lot of people even think it is boring. Good for you, because earlier today you nominated the real one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We have to get back on schedule — look, I have lived a long, full, blessed life. It really took off when I met and fell in love with that girl in the spring of 1971. When I was president I worked hard to give you peace and shared prosperity, to give you an America where nobody is invisible or counted out. But, for this time, Hillary is uniquely qualified to seize the opportunities and reduce the risks we face and she is still the best darn change-maker I have ever known.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You could drop her in any trouble spot. Pick one. Come back in a month and somehow, some way, she will have made it better. That is just who she is. There are clear, achievable, affordable responses to our challenges. But we will not get to them if America makes the wrong choice in this election. That is why you should elect her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And you should elect her because she will never quit when the going gets tough. She will never quit on you. She sent me in this primary to West Virginia, where she knew we were going to lose, to look those coal miners in the eye and say, “I am down here because Hillary sent me to tell you that if you really think you can get the economy back that you had 50 years ago, have at it, vote for whoever you want to. But if she wins, she is coming back for you to take you along on the ride to America’s future.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And so I say to you, if you love this country and are working hard, are paying taxes, and obeying the law, and you’d like to become a citizen, you should choose immigration reform over somebody who wants to send you back. If you are a Muslim and you love America and freedom and you hate terror, stay here and help us win and make the future together.</span></div>
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<b>From Denny: </b> Talk about rock the house! First Lady Michelle Obama delivered a very positive uplifting and inspiring speech in this dark vitriolic political season. It may be Hillary Clinton's convention but Michelle Obama clearly owned the room, leaving viewers and the press with a lasting afterglow into the next day...<br />
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What was most telling is her point of view as a black family in the White House, a house built by slaves. Talk about knowing "you've come a long way, baby!" What was chilling was the picture she painted of her two young daughters, at the time who were ages seven and ten, being whisked off to school in a car stuffed full of men with guns and seeing her daughters' faces pressed against the glass looking back at her as they drove off. "What have we done?" Mrs. Obama asked. This is not exactly the kind of situation you desire for your children. The life of a public servant has many downfalls for the family.<br />
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Mrs. Obama extolled the virtues of America and expressed a very confident view of the country's social progress as she embraced Hillary Clinton as the natural heir to her husband's presidency. Mrs. Obama also took the time to do what has not been done enough by Hillary's own campaign: she listed the many deeds of Hillary Clinton that led to this generation of women and people of color possessing more rights from the fruits of her labor. <br />
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Twenty-five years ago Hillary Clinton was considered abrasive for demanding more rights for women and people of color. Today it's just taken for granted. But there was a time when Hillary Clinton was a pioneer, something this youngest generation still does not fully appreciate or understand just how much of an uphill fight Hillary took on then. Hillary Clinton has been a very valuable public servant for much of her adult life. We are all luckier for it that Hillary Clinton chose to be a political survivor no matter how much poison is spewed at her from the Republican Party of liars, crooks and bullies.<br />
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Speaking of liars and bullies, Mrs. Obama talked pointedly about Republican candidate Donald Trump, accomplished deftly all without mentioning his name. Mrs. Obama dismissed Trump's message that America isn't great but needs to become great again. Of course, Trump says he can do it all by himself without anyone's help. That man is so not realistic. Mrs. Obama chose to declare just how great America still is and will remain so: "Don't let anyone ever tell you that this country isn't great. This, right now, is the greatest country on earth."<br />
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Is it any wonder that the Obamas captured the attention and admiration of this country and the world? They always work hard to take the high road no matter how much poison is thrown at them from the grumpy and caustic Republicans. Can't wait to see her on the campaign trail as she will be an awesome surrogate for Hillary. But, more than for Hillary's sake, Michelle Obama is a reminder to take care of our future, take care of our children, our neighbor's children and the world's children to make the world a better place.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Remarks by the First Lady at the Democratic National Convention</span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>MRS. OBAMA:</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> Thank you all. (Applause.) Thank you so much. You know, it’s hard to believe that it has been eight years since I first came to this convention to talk with you about why I thought my husband should be President. (Applause.) Remember how I told you about his character and conviction, his decency and his grace -– the traits that we’ve seen every day that he’s served our country in the White House.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I also told you about our daughters –- how they are the heart of our hearts, the center of our world. And during our time in the White House, we’ve had the joy of watching them grow from bubbly little girls into poised young women -– a journey that started soon after we arrived in Washington, when they set off for their first day at their new school.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I will never forget that winter morning as I watched our girls, just seven and ten years old, pile into those black SUVs with all those big men with guns. (Laughter.) And I saw their little faces pressed up against the window, and the only thing I could think was, “What have we done?” (Laughter.) See, because at that moment, I realized that our time in the White House would form the foundation for who they would become, and how well we managed this experience could truly make or break them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">That is what Barack and I think about every day as we try to guide and protect our girls through the challenges of this unusual life in the spotlight -- how we urge them to ignore those who question their father’s citizenship or faith. (Applause.) How we insist that the hateful language they hear from public figures on TV does not represent the true spirit of this country. (Applause.) How we explain that when someone is cruel, or acts like a bully, you don’t stoop to their level -– no, our motto is, when they go low, we go high. (Applause.) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents are their most important role models. And let me tell you, Barack and I take that same approach to our jobs as President and First Lady, because we know that our words and actions matter not just to our girls, but to children across this country –- kids who tell us, “I saw you on TV, I wrote a report on you for school.” Kids like the little black boy who looked up at my husband, his eyes wide with hope, and he wondered, “Is my hair like yours?” (Applause.) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And make no mistake about it, this November, when we go to the polls, that is what we’re deciding -– not Democrat or Republican, not left or right. No, this election, and every election, is about who will have the power to shape our children for the next four or eight years of their lives. (Applause.) And I am here tonight because in this election, there is only one person who I trust with that responsibility, only one person who I believe is truly qualified to be President of the United States, and that is our friend, Hillary Clinton. (Applause.) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">See, I trust Hillary to lead this country because I’ve seen her lifelong devotion to our nation’s children –- not just her own daughter, who she has raised to perfection –- (applause) -- but every child who needs a champion: Kids who take the long way to school to avoid the gangs. Kids who wonder how they’ll ever afford college. Kids whose parents don’t speak a word of English but dream of a better life. Kids who look to us to determine who and what they can be.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You see, Hillary has spent decades doing the relentless, thankless work to actually make a difference in their lives -- (applause) -- advocating for kids with disabilities as a young lawyer. Fighting for children’s health care as First Lady and for quality child care in the Senate. And when she didn’t win the nomination eight years ago, she didn’t get angry or disillusioned. (Applause.) Hillary did not pack up and go home. Because as a true public servant, Hillary knows that this is so much bigger than her own desires and disappointments. (Applause.) So she proudly stepped up to serve our country once again as Secretary of State, traveling the globe to keep our kids safe. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And look, there were plenty of moments when Hillary could have decided that this work was too hard, that the price of public service was too high, that she was tired of being picked apart for how she looks or how she talks or even how she laughs. But here’s the thing -- what I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. (Applause.) She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life. (Applause.) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And when I think about the kind of President that I want for my girls and all our children, that’s what I want. I want someone with the proven strength to persevere. Someone who knows this job and takes it seriously. Someone who understands that the issues a President faces are not black and white and cannot be boiled down to 140 characters. (Applause.) Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military in your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or a tendency to lash out. You need to be steady, and measured, and well-informed. (Applause.) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I want a President with a record of public service, someone whose life’s work shows our children that we don’t chase fame and fortune for ourselves, we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed -- (applause) -- and we give back, even when we’re struggling ourselves, because we know that there is always someone worse off, and there but for the grace of God go I. (Applause.) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I want a President who will teach our children that everyone in this country matters –- a President who truly believes in the vision that our founders put forth all those years ago: That we are all created equal, each a beloved part of the great American story. (Applause.) And when crisis hits, we don’t turn against each other -– no, we listen to each other. We lean on each other. Because we are always stronger together. (Applause.) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And I am here tonight because I know that that is the kind of president that Hillary Clinton will be. And that’s why, in this election, I’m with her. (Applause.) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You see, Hillary understands that the President is about one thing and one thing only -– it’s about leaving something better for our kids. That’s how we’ve always moved this country forward –- by all of us coming together on behalf of our children -- folks who volunteer to coach that team, to teach that Sunday school class because they know it takes a village. Heroes of every color and creed who wear the uniform and risk their lives to keep passing down those blessings of liberty. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Police officers and protestors in Dallas who all desperately want to keep our children safe. (Applause.) People who lined up in Orlando to donate blood because it could have been their son, their daughter in that club. (Applause.) Leaders like Tim Kaine -- (applause) -- who show our kids what decency and devotion look like. Leaders like Hillary Clinton, who has the guts and the grace to keep coming back and putting those cracks in that highest and hardest glass ceiling until she finally breaks through, lifting all of us along with her. (Applause.) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">That is the story of this country, the story that has brought me to this stage tonight, the story of generations of people who felt the lash of bondage, the shame of servitude, the sting of segregation, but who kept on striving and hoping and doing what needed to be done so that today, I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves -- (applause) -- and I watch my daughters –- two beautiful, intelligent, black young women –- playing with their dogs on the White House lawn. (Applause.) And because of Hillary Clinton, my daughters –- and all our sons and daughters -– now take for granted that a woman can be President of the United States. (Applause.) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So don’t let anyone ever tell you that this country isn’t great, that somehow we need to make it great again. Because this, right now, is the greatest country on earth. (Applause.) And as my daughters prepare to set out into the world, I want a leader who is worthy of that truth, a leader who is worthy of my girls’ promise and all our kids’ promise, a leader who will be guided every day by the love and hope and impossibly big dreams that we all have for our children. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So in this election, we cannot sit back and hope that everything works out for the best. We cannot afford to be tired, or frustrated, or cynical. No, hear me -- between now and November, we need to do what we did eight years ago and four years ago: We need to knock on every door. We need to get out every vote. We need to pour every last ounce of our passion and our strength and our love for this country into electing Hillary Clinton as President of the United States of America.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Let’s get to work. Thank you all, and God bless.</span></div>
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Just in case any of our fellow Americans living overseas missed this funny because you are living in a country of heavy censorship, I'm putting this one up for you. (So far, none of my blogs have landed on a censorship list in some foreign country because I'm too small to notice. ) For all the rest of us, it's good to laugh yet again even if you have seen this clip a hundred times. It just possesses that lasting quality.<br />
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Donald Trump really is just too full of himself. It's like he has appointed himself dictator, but more on that later about what has been popping up in the news that could be prove quite chilling if he were actually elected and propelled into the White House.<br />
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Meanwhile, let's just get a well deserved laugh on Freaky Friday here because Donald Trump really does fly his Freak Flag a little too often. But the Comedy Gods are keeping him somewhat humble. <b>Check out Jimmy Fallon's rendition...</b><br />
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<b>From Denny:</b> Two major disasters for the Republican Party just on day one of their much touted Trump style showbiz convention. First up? The political party that lays claim to - and totally brain washes their followers into believing with such conviction - is that they are the party of "the rule of law." Well, until that "rule of law" no longer serves their immediate political purposes and grab for power so they blow on past that "rule of law" like a winter north wind on a subzero cold day....<br />
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Everyone was wondering how the establishment part of the GOP was going to find a way to quash the populist grassroots Never Trump movement. We all saw it play out on day one of the convention. Eleven states had enough signatures to force a vote at the convention. They wanted to unbind their delegates to voting for Trump on the first ballot which happened on day two. <br />
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What did the establishment GOP do? They hid the secretary for two hours so the vote could not occur. Are the Republicans still stuck in fourth grade or what? Meanwhile, calls went out to those various states to reduce their numbers, threatening calls no less. At the end of the two hour pause, there were seven states remaining in the Never Trump column. The interesting thing is that this group still had enough to force the vote, according to the party's "rule of law" for the convention. The establishment GOP claimed the vote failed. Well, the vote never occurred so how could it fail?<br />
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Many on the convention floor accused the establishment GOP of Nazi "brown shirt fascist" tactics. Others called them liars and knew the establishment GOP broke their own "rule of law." Basically, the establishment GOP bullied their way through the convention, totally disrespectful of their grassroots' voices. All these people wanted was to be heard. The establishment GOP was as deaf to their own grassroots Republicans as they are tone deaf to the American public.<br />
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With all these machinations, Trump was "elected" as the nominee on day two. What a surprise.<br />
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Better yet was that a possible Republican First Lady decides to lift current First Lady Michelle Obama's 2008 Democrat Convention speech and deliver it as her own. <b><span style="color: red;"> <a href="http://www.ohio.com/news/local/kent-state-expert-says-melania-trump-s-speech-100-percent-plagiarism-1.698388?localLinksEnabled=false"><span style="color: red;">Plagiarism? Oh, yeah, totally.</span> </a></span></b> The thing about plagiarism is that just changing around a few words isn't enough to say it wasn't copycatting. <b>As a writer, I know that the most important way to catch plagiarism is by writing voice.</b> Nothing annoys me more than a copy and paste job that too many people actually think is professional and acceptable. Use your own words, people, <i>your own words. </i>You can discuss the same themes and ideas but they must be in your own voice, your own style of speaking and thinking. <br />
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Melania failed the test and so did the campaign. When the press discovered the plagiarism a mere two hours after she triumphantly left the stage thinking all was good in her world, all hell broke loose. <b>People were shocked the Trump campaign could be so sloppy and really bad at details. This is why many are wondering how a Trump White House could operate in a sane manner, let alone efficiently and in a trustworthy way.</b><br />
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<b>And then there was the campaign messaging. </b> <b>Not a surprise to me but it was to the rest of the media. <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-voter-special-gelber-idUSKCN0ZZ1SO"><span style="color: red;">This campaign is a collection of misogynists</span></a> and lobbyists and political flunkies left over from the Sarah Palin campaign.</b> The campaign manager is a lobbyist and was not about to admit he screwed up. Instead, in the immediate hours following the plagiarism discovery, he blamed Melania as the culprit. Seriously? That's like Politics 101: Never blame the candidate's spouse because it's really bad form. Stupid. <b><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-tv-idUSKCN0ZZ29M"> <span style="color: red;">Her speech didn't deliver much in the way of TV ratings either.</span></a></b><br />
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<b>Trump was furious that what was supposed to be Melania's triumph made a fool of her. </b>He wanted it fixed. So what did the campaign do? They <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-idUSKCN1000ZV"><b><span style="color: red;">found a <i>woman</i> to take the fall</span></b>,</a> Meredith McIver, who made a public apology, hoping the media would move on. Seriously? I'm sure Trump paid her handsomely to be the public face of this political disaster. But who really believes that a former ballet dancer who was an English major didn't know the speech was plagiarized? Come on; a college freshman knows not to plagiarize. <b> Anyone involved in any kind of writing knows you must source or quote when passages are not your own words. </b><br />
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Supposedly, McIver offered to resign over the disaster. Does anyone really believe there really was that offer? Come on. This was just a ruse to help Donald Trump look magnanimous by refusing her resignation. Suddenly, the guy who is famous on TV for "You're fired!" decides not to fire such an epic screw up? Gee, "do ya think?" it has something to do with the fact that she probably never actually wrote the speech in the first place? <b>Obviously, the Truth is still "out there" waiting to land at a safe port in this political storm.</b><br />
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<b>From Denny: </b>Today is more than just that long needed holiday vacation with the family, fun backyard barbecues and country music festivals. It's one of those few days of the year that Americans come together to remember the fallen in our too many wars over the past few centuries of our young country. </div>
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Some of those wars were justified for the greater good to bring back world peace. Other wars spilled precious blood for nothing more than the Pentagon leaders' selfish need for personal glory and the just plain money-grubbing greed of business people: otherwise known as war profiteers. </div>
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FYI, for those who don't remember or don't know: <b>The Vietnam War was a proxy war between the U. S. and Russia.</b> Russia backed North Vietnam and the U. S. backed South Vietnam.</div>
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Profiteers are still with us today, not just the Vietnam War era. Take a look at how our current day Pentagon is busy "feeding the military beast" of Russia. The latest nonsense is giving away half a billion dollars to the Russians in exchange for Russian rocket engines that you know Putin will sabotage. Come on,<i> really?</i> Putin is supposed to be under sanctions, and, yet, our Pentagon and Congress find a way to feed his ailing economy another $500 million??? <b>The sanctions won't work as long as the Pentagon, Congress and Wall Street cockroach around them...</b></div>
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Speaking of feeding another military beast: President Obama's ridiculous TPP trade agreement is playing right into the military ambitions of China. China is creating quite the military build-up, unprecedented in decades. China has declared they "want to own the oceans." China is already attempting to obstruct and exact tolls for the world's $50 billion (estimates up to $5 trillion) shipping lane in the South China Sea, causing quite a stir and political tensions in the region. Of course, the U. S. is running warships to cruise the stupidity, warning the Chinese of aggressive intentions carried out result in serious consequences.</div>
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<b>Yet, to please Wall Street and other profiteers, President Obama and others in Congress shaft the American worker in order to put more money into <i>China's </i>economy?</b> For the past 30 years, while the American worker got short shrift from both political parties in Washington, China has benefited and built up their economy utilizing <i>our</i> money from shoddy goods sold in America. </div>
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Yet, our politicians and the Pentagon leaders continue to ignore this massive military build-up in China and Russia at the world's and America's peril. <b> They are too busy padding their resumes and stuffing their personal wallets with bribes from defense industry lobbyists and kickbacks from defense industry contractors, ignoring national security - and integrity. </b> In the past few years we have already witnessed how China and Russia are flexing those military muscles. Russia invaded Ukraine and annexed the country, planning to move westward into other European countries until NATO said, "Do so at your own ruin, Putin!"</div>
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Yet, here we are again, decades later after the Vietnam War ended, fighting the same stupid problems that lead to needless wars. <b>It's all because of a lack of real leadership at the top of our country and military and business sectors.</b> <b> Are we doomed to repeat bad history, giving the blood of our soldiers instead of creating an alternative solution had our leaders possessed the vision, the honor, the integrity? </b></div>
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Too many Americans have died in war. Too many Americans have returned from war only to find it difficult to integrate back into this fast-paced but socially disconnected culture. The Vietnam War created the largest number of military veterans who became homeless. It took the Pentagon 40 years and a lot of public pressure to finally start trying to house these men. </div>
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<b>Don't even get me started on the military rape epidemic and the Pentagon's lousy attitude and lack of leadership to do anything serious about it. Again, it's about a total lack of <i>quality leadership</i> at the top.</b> </div>
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<b>T</b><b>hat's why it's losing the quality leaders like USMC</b><b> GSGT Charles Perkins matters so very much. Every day, today, we lose 22 military veterans to suicide.</b> <b>Where is the leadership? I guarantee that if Chuck Perkins were living today he would not be standing on the sidelines or wringing his hands, whining how the problem is too big to tackle and win like the current Pentagon leadership gives as their flimsy excuse for sitting down on the job.</b></div>
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<b>USMC GSGT Charles "Chuck" Perkins (22 Sept 1934 - 17 May 1968)</b></div>
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Who is Charles "Chuck" Perkins? He was my uncle who died in South Vietnam (Military Region 1 - Quang Tri). The family story goes that he was taking back some stupid hill they had taken a few days before but had been ordered to retreat after that victory, giving up the real estate for which blood had been spilled. Then, in the infinite wisdom of the usual Pentagon suspects, Chuck had been ordered to retake that same hill. </div>
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Everyone knew it was a suicide mission. He took it anyway. And, yes, he died. And for what? <b>Bad leadership is just the beginning of that sad story, a bad leadership exposed and laid bare butt naked in today's Pentagon generation by POW Bowe Bergdahl who will end up crucified to hide the Pentagon leaders' gross incompetence. </b>But Chuck was "a good soldier" and a by-the-book Marine. He went in with his eyes wide open and did it in spite of the dire consequences.</div>
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Chuck was New York City, the Bronx, born and bred. I never knew him but my older cousins did for they lived in the area. They practically worshiped the ground he walked upon. <b>Chuck was a natural leader and it showed in everything he did and every person he beheld in life. His life may have been 33 years short but it was not without purpose, honor or meaning. </b> I wrote this poem with him in mind as well as the thousands of our other fallen in America: <span style="color: red;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><b><a href="http://poemsfromaspiritualheart.blogspot.com/2010/11/heart-remembers.html" style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: red;">The Heart Remembers</span></a>.</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">For the past six months I've done something most journalists would not have the courage to do: I temporarily paused writing on this and my other blogs. Why? To observe, OK, scrutinize this <i>very unusual</i> presidential race that the whole world is worried about the outcome. It was time for a seriously deep think, not speaking or writing, just listening. (I also decided to move our house and office to larger digs while I was at it. Might as well be productive while I'm deep thinking.)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">The candidates have had six months to make their cases to me, a voter, because that's how I look at things, not like the typical media outlet journalist told how to slant their news stories. Sorry, fellow media, you know it's the hard truth. So many of you are capable of damn good writing but lack the courage to follow the <i>whole</i> truth and for <i>honorable</i> reasons. (Notable stellar exception: <a href="https://www.propublica.org/"> <b><span style="color: red;">ProPublica</span></b></a>.) Instead, you squander your time in this life protecting your jobs and padding your bank accounts rather than making your lives count for better. Hopefully, you will wake up en masse and do a world of good all at once.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">What has all this got to do with Memorial Day and USMC GSGT Chuck Perkins who died so long ago in 1968 in a foreign war? Plenty. When you live your lives without an emphasis upon honor you stall in life, never growing and certainly never challenging yourself to new heights. <b>USMC GSGT Chuck Perkins did more in his short 33 years than many of today's generations of Americans who waste their opportunity in this life by keeping their heads down, texting on their phones, refusing to get engaged with other people, with Life itself. That's just existing; it isn't truly living.</b> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><b>Quit sitting on the sidelines, people, and get out and face the hurricane force head winds like Chuck Perkins. Screw up your courage and actually live by pursuing Honor, Courage, and, most of all, Truth.</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><b>It's Marines like USMC GSGT Chuck Perkins who died to make your life a better and safer place. So, what are you going to do with this gift bought with the blood of your fellow Americans?</b></span></div>
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<b>From Denny:</b> <b>"Hey, I've got an idea; let's leverage this guy <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_McFarland">Booger McFarland</a>, sports commentator from ESPN and <a href="http://maroonandwhitenation.com/2014/07/14/sec-network-announcers-analysts-hosts-finalized/"><span style="color: red;">SEC Nation</span></a>, to be our mouthpiece. He's already made it clear he is willing to do anything and say anything as mean as possible. You know he doesn't have any integrity.</b> He's one of us, he he. He can slander Coach Les Miles and call for his firing, promoting our weak reasons for why he has to go," says Athletic Director Joe Alleva to a <i>few </i>disgruntled members on the LSU Board of Supervisors and a <i>few</i> wealthy boosters. <br />
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<b>Alleva turned Booger loose to grind on the LSU Tigers and run down the brand of both the college and the coach, believing that was a great strategy to get rid of Coach Miles.</b> After all, Booger bragged he "is great friends with Athletic Director Joe Alleva and LSU President King Alexander." <br />
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"Yeah, and let's hide our nasty strategy from the majority of the LSU Board of Supervisors. Let's keep them in the dark until we <i>have</i> to tell them. They don't need to know until we have whipped up public sentiment so negative we can easily get rid of Coach Miles. They never need to find out our game plan until <i>after </i>the coach is gone. We can brag about what we did and celebrate then. Agreed?" promises the <i>few</i> conniving members on the LSU Board of Supervisors to Alleva, Alexander and each other, hoping to contain the truth from seeing daylight.<br />
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<b>Of course, their nasty plan backfired because of both LSU fan push back and political pressure demanding they quit being Stuck on Stupid immediately.</b><br />
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These were the idiots that decided it would be good business to run down the LSU brand - to which in the public's mind Coach Les Miles is so strongly attached - and run down the very successful football program. <b>Weren't any of these clueless guys aware that LSU's football program is one of the <i>very few</i> profitable college programs in the entire nation? </b> <b>Why would any person with a brain and an ounce of emotional maturity be Stuck on Stupid and blow up the profits to the state? </b><br />
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And who installed these fools on the LSU Board of Supervisors? <b>It's past due time that these pot stirrers - with no business sense - get kicked off the LSU Board. </b> Gov. elect John Bel Edwards will be in office in early January. He needs to seriously find some better candidates to replace those diva pot stirrers and fast.<br />
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"Well, guys, if this blows up in our faces <i>my</i> fingerprints were never on it," declares scared stick LSU President F. King Alexander, "It's on you, Joe."<br />
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<b>Yeah, <a href="http://theadvocate.com/football/lsufootball/14190384-93/lsu-ad-joe-alleva-admits"><span style="color: red;">Alexander was in on the plot as well</span></a> because he never came out and spoke to the public or the press in support of Coach Miles for well over a week while Miles roasted over the open pit of public and media speculation. </b> Clearly, Alexander and those few LSU Board members hoped Coach Miles would despair at getting savaged that he would feel compelled to resign. Coach Miles handled the heat and stayed in that hot kitchen to the bitter end, winning public support, forcing the LSU Board, Alexander and Alleva to relent...<br />
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<b>Alexander must be replaced because of his lack of integrity for starters. Alexander is not the kind of person who should be a college president, a place where integrity is taught, encouraged and nurtured.</b> Is it coincidence that he secured an additional five-year contract from the LSU Board in October, then suddenly in November what surfaces were all these ugly leaks to the press that Coach Miles will get replaced? Did Alexander wait until he thought his job was secure before he unleashed the plot against Coach Miles? <br />
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<b>There is so much wrong doing going on here I'm almost at a loss to describe the very long list of grievous sins. </b> <b>An entire novel could be written about all this backstabbing in academia, <i>dragging in the sports media to do their bidding.</i></b><br />
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<b>Let's start with the behavior and habits of corporate and academia political weasels like LSU President Alexander and Athletic Director Alleva. </b> <b>If there is one thing academia political weasels know is how to make people feel special and important, knowing those same people will support anything they want to do. They will also open their wallets. Alexander and Alleva sure saw Booger McFarland coming. He was ripe for the plucking, easy to convince and dupe into carrying out their plan. </b><br />
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<b>McFarland already fancies himself the Smartest Guy in the Room but that wasn't enough. That's evident by how he bullies and talks over all the other sports commentators, pushing to get his way at the expense of all the others. What worked in an NFL game simply does not work in every day Life. Booger is also highly negative, a quibbler, instead of offering constructive criticism. His analysis leaves a lot to be desired. Booger makes things far too personal, running down individuals like he has Coach Miles and some members of the LSU Tigers</b>. <b>Booger is also this negative toward other teams. </b><br />
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Some of his analysis is wacky in the sense he declares one person makes this or that team the winner when everyone knows it takes an <i>entire</i> team, each member doing their job well, to make that one individual look so grand as to garner notice and get the glory. A lot of his thinking really is quite limited on<i> critical</i> thinking and downright childish.<br />
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<b>In particular, the LSU Tigers are a very young team, comprised mostly of freshmen and sophomores. The NFL has poached LSU for many years now, weakening the continuity and strength of the team.</b> <b>Even so, this year's young LSU Tigers still managed to win 8 out of 11 games.</b> <b> The three games that went sideways were all against experienced senior quarterbacks, all playing in the system for four to five years.</b> <br />
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LSU's QB Harris? This is his first year playing a <i>full</i> season. He did well considering what he was up against and how many hits he took both on and off the field. To his credit, blasted by the heat of destructive media criticism, QB Harris toughed it out psychologically and physically, something totally unappreciated and missed by Booger. <br />
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Tell me, was Booger as good in his freshman year as he was in his senior? Who ever is? What about Booger's last year in the NFL? Was he perfect? <span style="color: red;"> <a href="http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3267801"><b><span style="color: red;">Apparently, far from it.</span></b></a> </span>Or has he so quickly forgotten what it is to be a student, struggling to take it all in, learning to manage emotions as well as such a national stage and loud stadium? It's a lot to adjust to and navigate. <br />
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<b>You cannot just snap your fingers and instantly enjoy perfection. Perfection has to be practiced, earned and grows day by day. The real definition of "perfection" is "maturity." Maturity takes time and a whole lot of attention to get there, both as a team and as an individual. Are you paying close attention, Booger? THIS should be YOUR teachable moment.</b><br />
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<b>College teams are <i>not</i> the NFL </b> They are students, student athletes, there to earn a college degree first and play football second. It's unacceptable how Booger treats them all. His harsh negative talk is simply not useful in any way other than to promote the Booger brand. Apparently, he is convinced he is the only person deserving of respect, not any of those around him on the set or on the sports teams across the country. <br />
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<b>Booger seems determined to trash talk LSU and grind on the LSU Tigers. He singled them out, calling them "the most desperate in the bowl games." Seriously? </b> How is that useful? Oh, that's right, it's all orchestrated to prove Booger is right. Booger is convinced the LSU Tigers are a useless team and so is the coach. By getting in their heads psychologically, Booger believes he can pretty much guarantee the LSU Tigers will perform badly in the bowl game. "See, I told you so," will be the Booger mantra after the bowl game. <i>Really? </i>That is so immature, viciously calculating and totally lacking in integrity.<br />
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<b>Booger wants to be the Most Important Guy in the Room as well. He radiates it. Conniving manipulators like Alleva see this type of emotionally needy person every day and they are experienced at leveraging people like Booger, especially when they are media people. Alleva appears to give Booger what he wants: acceptance into their group, getting to hang out with The Big Money Boys. Booger foolishly gives them his loyalty, lapping up the acceptance, never realizing they don't give him an ounce of loyalty in return. Political weasels are loyal to no one but themselves. They are their own highest priority, first, last and always.</b><br />
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<b>That's when the manipulators like Alleva know when people like Booger are ready to take it to the next level: leveraging that national public platform of ESPN and SEC Nation to carry out their insidious slander project to publicly humiliate a man like Coach Les Miles and the LSU Tigers.</b><br />
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"Yeah, it will be a successful strategy to run a very public campaign on the national major sports networks to humiliate Coach Miles that he will be so devastated he will have no alternative but to resign. Then we don't have to pay out his expensive contract of at least $15 million. I'll look like the conquering hero to the LSU Board of Supervisors. I can lay claim to how much money I saved the university in tight fiscal times," crows A.D. Joe Alleva.<br />
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<b>Booger went about his assigned job from his handlers, LSU President Alexander and Athletic Director Joe Alleva. Booger was the ever present battering ram, running down the Les Miles brand at every turn, every conversation, every day for far too long. The problem is that Booger also ran down the LSU brand in general. </b><br />
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<b>As Booger relished his role of perceived power, he really got into the full swing of mean-spiritedness. He didn't just slam and slander Coach Les Miles. Booger disrespected and peed on the LSU football players, dismissing in a disgusted voice, "Oh, that kumbaya stuff of carrying the coach on their shoulders and off the field after the game. It's irrelevant. It's stupid."</b><br />
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<b>Booger peed on the LSU fans, dismissing our support of Coach Miles and outrage at what Booger was doing as ridiculously lame. Booger is of the impression that Love, Loyalty and Integrity are unimportant to a university football program or Life. He "prides" himself on how much Truth he imparts. Seriously? He is the tool of an athletic director. His Truth cannot be trusted because it comes with a dark and ugly agenda.</b><br />
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<b>As a journalist I find this whole situation more than disconcerting. It's outrageous. Where were the producers on ESPN and SEC Nation? If I were producing these shows and witnessed Booger actively carrying out a slander campaign to run down a coach's brand I would be pulling him aside and telling him he could not do such a thing with our national public platform. </b><br />
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As it is fellow sports commentator Marcus Spears tried to be a friend to Booger, pulling him aside, saying, "Don't you think you are disrespecting the LSU football players by attacking their coach? Don't you think you are going too far?"<br />
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Booger dismissed Marcus Spears as well. <b>And that's the problem with Booger; he doesn't behave like he has to respect any person around him. He doesn't respect the LSU Tigers team, the coach, his fellow commentators, the viewing audience and the entire state of Louisiana. Booger peed on all of us.</b><br />
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<b>If I were one of the shows' producers I would have already gone to the network execs and said the following, </b>"This guy is out of control. Measures to rein him in have failed. He isn't teachable. He bullies every one on the set. Worst of all, he pees on his viewing audience. Half that audience are women and we all know how women can't stand a bullying attitude.<br />
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"As a sports network do you actually think in the future that Coach Les Miles will enjoy taking a call from Booger or from us? Do you think Coach Miles or the LSU football players will be amenable to give ESPN or SEC Nation interviews? Do you think ESPN or SEC Nation will be welcome on the LSU campus ever again or has this situation so hardened attitudes that we are sunk? Do you think the LSU fans are happy with Booger and will change the channel every time he comes on? Do you think the viewing audience trusts anything he has to say after proving how untrustworthy and unethical he is? <br />
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<b>"We need to cut Booger from the roster and cancel his contract. He is too immature for the job. Booger is reckless and irresponsible with the power that comes with a national position. Time for <i>him</i> to go."</b><br />
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<b>There are two alternatives here for Booger: evolve his attitude or ESPN cuts his job.</b> Frankly, after what I've seen for several weeks now Booger doesn't possess the courage to do right and become a better person. The very day after the Athletic Director Joe <a href="http://www.wbrz.com/videos/alleva-les-miles-will-continue-to-be-lsu-s-football-coach-27116"><b><span style="color: red;">Alleva made a public statement at the Texas A & M victory game conclusion</span></b></a>, Booger was out there running down Coach Miles yet again like nothing had changed. He continued to be Alleva's battering ram, carrying out the ugly game plan at every turn, day after day, never letting up.<br />
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Yeah, I get it. Booger was given an LSU scholarship and played on the LSU Tigers. Booger went on to the NFL. Apparently, he is convinced that a really bad attitude, coupled with a quibbling meanness and arrogance are the reason for his success. Acting like a battering ram is the vehicle to carry his success. Really? I'm terribly underwhelmed with his Life philosophy.<br />
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<b>What ever happened to paying it forward, Booger? You don't pee on the very state of Louisiana taxpayers who paid for your education and helped propel you into the NFL. You don't disrespect the up and coming team of LSU Tigers just because "they aren't you." </b><br />
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<b>Booger has said he has zero respect for Love. Loyalty. Integrity. </b><b>Why is it so necessary to disparage the love the LSU Tigers have for their coach? Why is it necessary to disrespect the loyalty the LSU fans have for the Tigers and Coach Miles? Most of all, why is Integrity gettin' no respect in this entire ugly drama?</b><br />
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<b>Change must happen. This bad attitude and garbage game plan cannot continue, especially utilizing a national media platform like ESPN and SEC Nation. As a journalist I'm outraged that my fellow media were so lame in not dealing with, reining in or firing Booger. </b><br />
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<b>Booger needs to understand that abusing his media position is wrong and unprofessional to say the least. Integrity is everything on such a public forum.</b> <b>Not one of the other ESPN or SEC Nation sports commentators have been such a destructive tool for a college athletic director.</b> <br />
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None of the other sports commentators run down individuals or coaches like Booger has done repeatedly. <b>The other sports commentators have their favorite teams, their passion for the game, their opinions and ideas. They enjoy heated, downright spirited discussions and friendly rivalries. But the huge difference between them and Booger is that they are willing to offer <i>constructive</i> criticism without dishing out slander and disrespect. </b>None of them are so determined to prove they are right about their opinions they are willing to destroy and disrespect those around them.<br />
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<b>Change must happen. This situation cannot continue to go on as if if this is no big deal. </b> As long as Booger remains in place he is too easily leveraged by Athletic Director Alleva. Perhaps SEC Nation can move him off the public forum and into the background to do his analysis in print or as research for the other commentators while the network execs figure out what to do with him. It's time for Gov. elect John Bel Edwards to replace LSU President Alexander, A. D. Alleva and those few conniving members of the LSU Board of Supervisors,<br />
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<b>Love. Loyalty. Integrity. They are not dead. They will not be disparaged, not in the state of Louisiana by the thousands who live it. GEAUX TIGERS and welcome back Coach Miles! We never waived our faith in all of you.</b><br />
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<b>From Denny: </b> What a game tonight as Coach Les Miles led his much tighter team to a great win against Texas A & M. This was a must win game for our coach to be considered to remain as head coach. Just 20 seconds after the game AD Joe Alleva came out and announced that Les Miles will stay on as head coach. It was Coach Miles' first hearing of the decision just moments after the game.<br />
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The past few weeks a group of boosters have tried to orchestrate his firing. What a bunch of divas, thinking a bunch of angry rich old white guys could throw their weight around and force his firing without even consulting the fan base of thousands of fans across the nation who follow LSU football. Coach Miles is the very picture of "grace under fire," something those boosters did not mirror.<br />
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The attitude of AD Joe Alleva and his booster posse have greatly angered the state of Louisiana and the city of Baton Rouge in particular. Political pressure started coming to bear when the LSU fans loudly and bitterly complained about this nasty and unprofessionally handled situation. <br />
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LSU admin needs to think seriously about dumping AD Joe Alleva and those boosters. This makes his second scandal after North Carolina that the public has soundly rejected.<br />
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Coach Les Miles was well celebrated by the fans in the stands both <i>before</i> the game with a standing ovation and <i>after</i> the game with chants of "We want Les!" The Tigers carried Coach Miles on their shoulders to demonstrate their support of LSU's most loved coach.<br />
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Well done, Coach, you really were grace under pressure. It was yet another teaching moment for a lot of people, not just your team. Hint: LSU admin, "can you hear me now?" Coach, now go round up that number one recruiting class that LSU admin and their idiot boosters chased off.<br />
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Now LSU admin, don't make me turn my glaring focus upon you ever again. I'm supposed to be focusing upon international and national issues not local sports. But hey, when someone thinks they can just behave badly toward a righteous man who is stuffed full of integrity, then it's your turn to hear this woman roar and gather up social media and LSU fan support. Well, now you know how the Pentagon, the NSA and Congress feel. As it is the White House is breathing a sigh of relief it was <i>you</i> who got scorched this week. GEAUX TIGERS!<br />
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<b>Check out this article I wrote yesterday criticizing LSU admin. It really was unbelievable how this all flared up and pissed off the fans:</b><br />
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<b>From Denny: </b> Well, it's official. <a href="http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/ncaafb/report-les-miles-tells-boosters-that-saturday-is-his-last-game-at-lsu/ar-AAfK92D?li=BBnbfcL"><b><span style="color: red;">LSU Coach Less Miles is coaching his last game Saturday</span></b>,</a> 28 November 2015. But wait - it's official: Rich old white men are behaving like diva tittie babies throwing a collective temper tantrum, a few angry old men <b>ignoring the wishes of thousands of LSU fans.</b> Are they related to Putin? Sure looks like it because these guys have zero class about how they go about parting ways with a winning coach who is also a terrific guy and an effective teacher.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Les Miles coached 142 games while at LSU for almost 11 years. His record? Pretty stellar stuff: 110 - 32. Miles took his LSU Tigers to two SEC championships, three SEC West titles and also a BCS National Championship in 2007. Since that win the boosters have hankered for more, unable to think soberly or realistically since they are in possession of a very young team. Those immature rich old men want what they want and no one will be tolerated to stand in their way. Well, Coach Les Miles was standing in their way - to hear these guys tell it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Coach Less Miles will come out of this well. He is already a wealthy man and will be wealthier still after his contract pays out. A good $15 million is expected to finish out his contract. Coach Miles is so well liked across the nation that he will be hired within hours by anyone from ESPN to college or NFL teams wanting to hire him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Coach Miles has done a lot for this Baton Rouge community and the state of Louisiana by promoting the LSU brand. He should have been allowed one more year to pull up such a young team to the standard LSU fans have become accustomed to enjoying.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />Normally I write on politics, nationally and internationally. But this situation is certainly politics too. These Gridiron Club boosters are seriously immature and lacking in any finesse is for sure. They are a shocking disappointment to the state of Louisiana, placing us in the spotlight for looking like a bunch of yahoo <a href="http://www.cafepress.com/dennylyongifts/9841073"><span style="color: red;"><b>diva</b></span></a> tittie babies. These boosters certainly look ridiculous to the fans all across the nation as well as in Louisiana. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>It's the Gridiron Club boosters/Tiger Athletic Foundation (TAF) who are the ones who have seriously damaged the LSU brand, <i>not</i> Coach Miles or the team. </b> Of course, they hide behind anonymity so that shows how "courageous" they are, now doesn't it? The Gridiron Club should have at least waited until the end of the season and quietly parted ways with Coach Miles, paying out his full contract. That would have been the professional way to handle it but these <b>diva tittie babies</b> would have none of proper professionalism.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Instead, what have they done? A nasty whisper campaign, public temper tantrums and now talk of trying to figure out how to screw Coach Miles out of the very contract they signed to uphold. Yeah, these guys are such a class act - <i>not. </i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>The Gridiron Club has lost their focus along with their class - if they ever owned any. They have forgotten that LSU is a place to educate; it isn't the NFL and a multi billion dollar business. Education and the teaching of good character is the <i>intended</i> focus for the student athletes. Coach Les Miles was here to teach. He was here to teach young men how to succeed in life, not just football. Coach Miles succeeded beyond measure. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">But not even Jesus Christ could be a prophet in his own home town. People there didn't listen to his teaching either. <b>Did it ever occur to the Gridiron Club that Coach Les Miles was here to re-teach and remind those boosters the value of good character and how to proceed in business with finesse and a classy attitude? </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So often people only read the surface of Life. "Oh," say the boosters, "Coach Less Miles is <i>just</i> a football coach. It was his job to win every game, bring home every championship, and, oh, by the way, make a few honorable mentions to developing good character to the students." Really? <b>Coach Miles was <i>really</i> here to teach the boosters and <i>they</i> were the ones who chose to be <i>unteachable. The team, the students or the coach were never the underlying issue. And that's the Truth of it.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />The last time LSU boosters screamed this same temper tantrum, decades ago, to a favorite coach the city loved, it took over 20 years to rebuild the program. Today, after hearing of the firing of Coach Miles, students who were committed to come to LSU have now started wavering or outright passed on LSU. Quality replacement coaches look at how badly these boosters handled this situation and they don't want anything to do with coming to LSU. <b>After all, if that's how the boosters treat a <i>winning coach</i> who became the LSU brand then how can the Gridiron Club boosters be trusted? Answer: they can't be trusted. Move along; nothing here to see.</b></span><b>
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<b>As to Coach Miles? He's welcome at our house any time. Even though we have never met he will always be considered family. Real commitment never ends. And the Love lives on as an LSU fan for a great coach and a wonderful team of young men figuring their way through Life just like all the rest of us.</b><br />
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<b>From Denny: </b> You know when Putin is desperate for money - and for international cover - when he comes to the U. S. acting like he is bosom pals with President Obama. Of course, the real reason he was meeting with Obama - after two years of absence <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/01/us-mideast-crisis-ukraine-idUSKCN0RV4RS20151001"><span style="color: red;"><b>because he was pouting</b></span></a> - was to see if Obama was clueless as to what Putin was about to do in Syria. Putin was satisfied that Obama was indeed unaware and easily fooled. <br />
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Putin took that as a sign <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/01/us-mideast-crisis-syria-camp-idUSKCN0RV4KM20151001"><span style="color: red;"><b>he could pee on Obama and so he did</b></span></a>. Well, that was stupid because Obama does not forget or forgive easily. It might take Obama some time for retaliation but he will do something Putin will really fear.<br />
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As to Syria you really have to wonder where the hell is the Arab League in this terrorism-civil war drama? Why is it the Middle East expects and blames the U. S. and the EU for not doing enough to stop Russia? Seriously? <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/01/us-mideast-crisis-syria-saudi-idUSKCN0RV3R520151001"><b><span style="color: red;">Why are the Middle Eastern countries not doing enough to stop Russia and IS?</span></b></a> It's their back yard. Why don't the Middle East countries devise their own no-fly zone? Why should it be the U. S. and the EU to do their job? "Da ya think?" it has something to do with Middle East wars are money pits with no good outcome seen for decades?<br />
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<b>Just because Putin has recently met with the EU countries about Ukraine doesn't mean a thing. France and Germany and others seem to be convinced of a deadly strategy: Let's cater to a psychopathic dictator and not complain about what Putin is doing in Syria at this conference. We will <a href="http://www.stripes.com/news/europe/france-tells-putin-to-confine-airstrikes-to-islamic-state-1.371425"><span style="color: red;">complain <i>outside</i> of this Ukraine conference as France did.</span></a> Seriously? Putin sees the EU as weak and easy to manipulate, a psychopath's dream...</b><br />
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Every interview you see Putin in it's <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/vladmir-putin-addresses-russias-intentions-in-syria/"><b><span style="color: red;">obvious he is lying to the reporter</span></b></a> about, well, <i>about everything. </i> He really is a deceptive guy, trying desperately to pump up his confidence that he can continue to fool the world when everyone knows his game plan. Putin believes he is terribly clever.<br />
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Now why should President Obama and Congress receive President Putin after all that rhetoric inside Russia - about too many lies to bother to list - against the U. S.? <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/02/us-mideast-crisis-syria-airstrikes-idUSKCN0RW0W220151002"><span style="color: red;"><b>Putin really is in trouble back at home.</b></span></a> When a dictator has to resort to whipping up patriotism by demonizing the U. S. you know that leader is not confident he can remain in power much longer. Read that as Putin is in fear of staying alive. He has already dodged and contained several assassination attempts. He had better get used to it that more assassins are coming in waves, and, at a rate he cannot eventually survive.<br />
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Of course, too many of my fellow journalists actually are naive enough to believe the so-called opinion polls from inside Russia about how Putin is so well loved. Seriously? <b>Who in their right minds would ever admit publicly how much they hate a ruthless dictator willing to jail or outright kill dissenters at the drop of a hat? Besides, the majority of those "polls" are engineered by the lap dog public relations press both inside Russia and the unpatriotic traitor lobbyists Putin has employed <i>here</i> in the U. S. </b><br />
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<b>OK, so we have established that Putin is a huge liar, always deceptive in all his relationships, hunted by assassins at every turn, and desperate to buddy up with Obama to do his bidding just so he can lift his leg and pee on Obama at will. After all, Putin is all about puppet governments so why not turn the U. S. and the EU into his favorite puppets? That's pretty much how this guy rolls.</b><br />
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Putin sent in his military to supposedly lift up the Syrian regime. The reasons he gives to the world are weak at best. "Oh, <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/vladmir-putin-addresses-russias-intentions-in-syria/"><span style="color: red;"><b>you have to support the legitimate government</b></span></a> because that's all it is." Read that as Russia has lots to lose. <b>For centuries Russian leaders have wanted to control the Middle East reason the analysts. </b><br />
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<b>In recent times, under Putin, the reality is that Putin is coveting their neighbors' oil fields. That's the <i>real </i>truth. The price of oil has dropped so low that pumping out three times as much as before is required just for Russia to keep its head above water. And that might not even work.</b><br />
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<b>A small part of Putin's Syria Plan is to thumb his nose at President Obama and the U. S.</b> <b>Why? Well, so far, Putin is furious he has been unsuccessful in getting those damaging sanctions lifted. </b>So, from Putin's point of view it's great fun to embarrass Obama by killing off the few rebel soldiers the U. S. has trained and outfitted to fight the Assad regime. It's not like Putin believes Life is sacred. He enjoys killing and the power and prestige he thinks he gains from it. That man is emotionally warped.<br />
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<b>How much of a corrupt training program that was of the Pentagon's inept doing is fodder for yet another post. OK, I'll give the outline in question form right now: </b>Come on; the Pentagon needed $500 million to train a mere 54 men? Where did all that money go? I'd like to see the financials of all those Pentagon generals - to view with total outrage - just how much money they siphoned off for themselves and their pals. It's the only plausible explanation.<br />
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Why is no Inspector General aggressively going after this out of control corruption that started as far back as 2001 when President Bush announced his War on Terrorism? Why isn't the FBI or some other alphabet soup federal agency investigating? Why is President Obama too quiet about losing that much money for so little productivity? <b>Just how widespread and deep in the ranks is this federal and military corruption? </b> Yes, my fellow journalists had better get off their lazy asses and start digging and digging fast. This level of corruption and incompetence must be investigated and quickly before this country goes bankrupt. What is everyone waiting for - <i>another </i>14 years to pass?<br />
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<b>But this post is really focused upon Putin and his motives for moving into Syria militarily. </b> <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/vladimir-putin-syria-obama-214284"><span style="color: red;"><b>Sticking his grubby finger into Obama's eye</b></span></a> is just part of the plan, the fun part to get him some swagger respect, or so he believes. <b>Of course, Putin is the usual dictator idiot who doesn't think deeply or beyond the obvious. Putin is playing with fire and could easily provoke a deadly response for himself and his military. After all, Ukraine has been kicking Russia's butt big time while Putin has hidden his losses from the Russian people.</b><br />
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You should <a href="http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/10/russia-putin-syria-invasion-experts-strategy-213213"><span style="color: red;"><b>read some of the so-called experts on Putin</b></span></a>. It really is laughable. So, my far from humble opinion can't be any worse. Besides, I'm always accurate. In my own not so humble opinion, <i>of course.</i><br />
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<b>These experts really are exasperating at best. They make all these assumptions, drawn from both Western thinking and the male gender type of thinking. That's their first mistake. Putin is such an easy read: He's crazy and he enjoys acting reckless and crazy. He also has absolutely no one to stop him from acting crazy.</b><br />
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<b>Putin thinks like an angry vengeful woman, just like the Middle East terrorists do. The difference is that Putin was broken in intelligence training so you have an added mindset as an over layer which seems to be confusing most analysts. </b><br />
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<b>You know, the "woman scorned" admonition? That's how these guys in Russia and the Middle East react to <i>everything. </i></b> It's all about the depth of emotion, that for some reason, most Western men and primarily male intelligence analysts just don't relate to or know what to do with it because they are so busy swishing it aside like it's a gnat in their face. Well, man up, boys, and start learning how to deal. That's why you keep missing it on analyzing most situations. <b>In both Russia and the Middle East there is a huge universe of swirling untamed emotion. You need to learn how to stand still in the middle of the storm and observe <i>accurately</i>.</b><br />
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<b>Meanwhile, back to Mr. Crazy Ass Putin: he really isn't long for this world.</b> He's beaten several close calls assassination attempts this year and killed off a number of those close to him as a <i>preventive</i> measure in the hopes the attempts will stop. <b>Well, they won't stop, especially now that he has interjected himself into Syria militarily. That was a serious miscalculation.</b> <br />
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<b>But then, Putin has no emotional discipline. He wants what he wants and he wants it right now like any unchallenged dictator with absolute power. Clearly, Putin has outworn his welcome with the Russian people and the world.</b><br />
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<b>Putin doesn't care if the West likes him but he does get emotionally hurt when the West doesn't respect him or dance to his tune like the typical child throwing a temper tantrum. </b> Putin is quite emotionally unruly and fond of international temper tantrums. That stupid trait does make him as entertaining as he looks ridiculous.<br />
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<b>Analysts studying Putin are always playing catch up - which is exactly what Putin enjoys - leading them around by the nose like some pet on a chain.</b> Experts waste time wringing their hands trying to find out who is advising Putin. Like that matters. That would be logical. <b>Crazy ruthless people are rarely logical on a consistent basis. You can't expect an irrational person to be rational in order to reason with them about their bad behavior.</b><br />
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Again, watch his conflicting emotions instead of what he is communicating verbally, trying to sound rational. <b>Ignore all that he <i>says.</i> In fact, when watching the video turn off the sound and you will finally see the obvious. In the end, he is <i>lying</i> about it all because his "rational" arguments are really just <i>misdirection</i> to get what he wants emotionally. Analysts and world leaders need to keep their focus. Quit falling for the typical traditional Russian misdirection of which Putin is so very fond.</b><br />
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<b>Putin is one insecure nasty piece of artwork who enjoys killing those close to him as much as he does on the battlefield. </b> He has a conscience but overrides it constantly in favor of his greed for power and money. <br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">And now we are at the heart of Putin: it's really all about the money. </span></b><br />
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Putin is less about dominance in the Middle East for Russia. He just pounced on that to misdirect analysts and make himself sound more grand. <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/02/us-mideast-crisis-syria-russia-idUSKCN0RW1N720151002"><span style="color: red;"><b>Even the Russian people do not support him on Syria.</b></span></a> Putin is not that personally interested in establishing Russian military dominance on to the world. <b> </b>He just tells that to his military generals to keep them happy and at bay for assassination attempts. <br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Putin is all about stealing as much as he can from every country he can do it to and as fast as he can do it. </span></b><br />
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<b>Putin visited the Pope at the Vatican, looked around, and thought to himself, "Stealing from the Pope will be like taking candy from a baby." Of course, the Pope was not fooled and saw the greed. After all, this Pope is not only a Jesuit but a trained and seasoned exorcist. If there is one thing an exorcist recognizes easily and quickly it's evil, human or spiritual. Like I keep saying, Putin is an easy read.</b><br />
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<b>What does Putin want in Syria? Well, to hear him tell it he is assisting Assad to stay in power which is what he tells Assad <i>until</i> he finishes looting the country.</b> Putin claims he is fighting the IS terrorists because he doesn't want them to spread to Russia. Well, that's what he says for cover to get Western powers to let him run loose in Syria. Putin is supposedly interested in maintaining his naval base in Syria too because it's for his military foothold in the Middle East. Come on; that naval base is one of the areas of which he will use to move the heaviest treasure out of the country. Duh.<br />
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<b>Putin is telling Assad: </b> "Don't worry. I'm setting it up militarily to help you get out of the country where you and your family can be safe in exile. By the way, where did you stash the Syrian treasures and money? I'll safeguard it for you." <br />
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<b>When a Russian crime boss tells you he will protect you, your money and give you safe passage you can bank on it that you will be sent flying out of that safe passage plane after he gets the location of all money and treasure. </b><br />
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<b>Then Putin will tell the international community yet another lie:</b> "I don't know what was wrong with Assad. He must have been crazy. He just suddenly opened the plane door and jumped out. What was he thinking?" <b>After all, has anyone seen Assad lately? He may already be dead. He has been a dead man walking for some time. He actually thought he could get away with torturing and killing Syrian children and not one parent would come looking to kill him? </b><br />
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<b>Putin is just laying the groundwork to easily secret the Syrian antiquities and treasures out of the country before IS can get their hands on it. </b> After all, Putin reasons, "Why should IS sell it on the black market for profit when<i> I</i> can take the profit?" <br />
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<b>Putin is looting the Syrian banks for cash too as he is cash strapped inside Russia since the sanctions and the price of oil dropped like a rock killing his economy.</b> There isn't enough cash in Syria to prop up the Russian economy successfully. Putin has never been much of an economist or decent business man. <b>But he does know how to steal and stuff that wealth into his own pockets.</b><br />
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<b>Putin has robbed Russia of so much money that his economy is imploding. </b> <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/01/us-mideast-crisis-ukraine-idUSKCN0RV4RS20151001"><span style="color: red;"><b>Annexing Crimea was stupid</b></span></a> as since then he has been garnishing the wages of all workers to pay for it. There is a whole lot of serious grumbling going on after that stupid move. And that was over a year ago. Can you imagine the number of assassination plots in the making because there is so much resentment among the Russian people for being so rudely used by their own President? Think about it.<br />
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<b>Putin and his allies of China and Iran are of the opinion that if they <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/02/us-mideast-crisis-russia-strike-idUSKCN0RW0I020151002"><span style="color: red;">keep up military pressure on the U. S.</span></a> that they will break through to get what they want. </b> Really? <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/01/us-mideast-crisis-ukraine-idUSKCN0RV4RS20151001"><span style="color: red;"><b>Starting war in Ukraine and now intervening in Syria is meant to put the U. S. off balance?</b></span></a> All meant just to gain influence? All Putin is really accomplishing is the stirring of a hornet's nest at his own peril.<br />
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<b>Quit wasting your time and energy trying to figure out why Putin is doing what he is doing. </b> All that Putin ultimately wants more than anything is money. He is gathering as much as possible because even he sees the handwriting on the wall that he cannot survive many more assassination attempts before he has to disappear or go into hiding in some dark corner of the world. He wants to make sure he can live in absolute luxury into old age.<br />
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<b>Putin wants the sanctions lifted as a way to stave off the increasing disapproval of the Russian people he knows are getting ready to turn on him. </b> He figures if he embarrasses the U. S. in Syria - and just about anywhere else - the U. S. will be so beaten down Obama will be forced to relent, recognizing Putin as the better man. See, I told he was crazy and delusional. What a warped mindset.<br />
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<b>As to President Obama, oh, quit with the whining to the Russian State Department. You look silly. That's exactly what the petty Russians <i>want</i> you to do: complain bitterly and publicly, caught up in the misdirection while Putin gallops around doing as he pleases. <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/02/us-mideast-syria-players-insight-idUSKCN0RW1VE20151002"><span style="color: red;">You are <i>not</i> short on options to handle this crisis.</span></a></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Be smart. Go silent and throw a pack of <i>new sanctions</i> on his sorry ass and be done with it. Act like his angry parent and discipline him and then kick him out of the house for disrespecting you. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">To sum it up this defines Putin:</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">1) Putin is a global human trafficker</span></b><br />
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<b>5) Putin is a crime boss of the Russian crime syndicate that has a stranglehold on the Russian government and police</b></span><br />
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<b>6) Putin is a thug, killing off political opposition just because there is no one to stop him</b></span><br />
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<b>Thought my military friends might enjoy the WWII story that goes along with this recipe...</b><br />
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He had been an Army cook in WWII. Originally, he was an infantry soldier in General Patton's pack. The story goes that Patton's troops were forever outrunning their supply lines. What that means to those of you who have never been in combat is that they often were on rations or went hungry. Everyone knows an army runs on its stomach.<br />
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Of course, John was an only child and yes, a Momma's boy but at least he knew how to hunt and was independent enough to take care of himself. He had a real disdain and fear for those spoiled soldiers whose mothers did too much for them. Why? Because he saw them get shot first, killed and in large numbers during the war. He was upset they refused to be teachable in order to save their lives. "War is not a country club!" he often used to say...<br />
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<b>From Denny: </b> <b>Turns out that friend and boss, Andrew Lauk, over at NBC believes in second chances for good people like Brian Williams.</b> Well, so do I. It's past due time for Brian Williams to come out of the cold and be welcomed back into society. He's paid his dues, suffered embarrassment and financial and status demotion. How much more do the Boo Birds and Jealous Journalists want? Those odious crowds would want blood if the network was stupid enough to give it to them.<br />
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<b>Congrats on your comeback, Brian. Ignore the jealous petty journalists in the newsroom</b>. The news industry is filled to overflowing with jealous petty people, just take a glance over at The New York Times, CNN and Fox newsrooms for starters. No surprise they exist at NBC and MSNBC. Two words to all of them: grow up! <b>And, while I'm at it dishing out advice to toxic people: be careful the meanness you visit upon others does not come back to visit your life because it surely will...</b><br />
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<b>How more meaningful could it be that Brian Williams' comeback journey began with </b><a href="http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc-news/watch/nyc-takes-big-security-measures-for-pope-531862083548" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: red;">live breaking news coverage</span></a><b> of </b><a href="http://www.msnbc.com/topics/pope-francis"><span style="color: red;"><b>Pope Francis' visit to the U. S.</b></span></a><b>?</b> This pope is a compassionate person who also believes in second chances and kindness.<br />
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<b>Speaking of kindness, Brian Williams has always been known for his coverage of women's issues and "good dog" stories.</b> Why not do documentaries in both categories in addition to short stories? I'd start with the "good dog" stories as the animal lovers would enjoy it. <b> </b>OK, I miss those "good dog" stories as <b>sometimes animals are the only "people" who give out the perfect example of kindness every day. </b> It's good to<b> </b>remind everyone about our furry friends and positive relationships<b> and how people could incorporate that same example of kindness into their lives.</b><br />
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Every week I check in with <a href="https://www.petfinder.com/"><b><span style="color: red;">petfinder</span></b></a> to see how many dogs are available for adoption just in my zip code: try over 10, 000 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, alone. <b>When you multiply that across the nation this country has an "animal refugee crisis" that is demanding attention. It's called homelessness. a serious issue in our time for both people and animals.</b><br />
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<b>Brian Williams can make his way back to balance. </b>It all starts with one day at a time and a strong unwavering focus upon his journey. This road to redemption is one millions of people have taken all over the world throughout time. It's rare any person lives the perfect life without making some seriously stupid mistakes. Just check out those who suffered from substance abuse for years, often decades, and screwed up their careers and family lives in the process. <b>The brave ones began their lives all over again, one day at a time and succeeded. </b><br />
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<b>Speaking of starting their lives over again refugees from Syria walked away from violence, insanity and unending war. </b>They didn't know where their lives would begin again but they are determined to do just that: begin again. Does it really matter that Syria was listed as a terrorist state and a ridiculous haven for the brutally insane? <b>The smart people are leaving and we all should give them the goodwill they need to begin their lives again.</b><br />
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<b>So, let's all give Brian Williams some emotional space and quit behaving badly. </b>Forgiveness is a good thing, especially when this man is trying so hard to get it right. <b>Welcome back, Brian, you are still a good journalist with a healthy body of work to your credit.</b> Now I expect you to get busy on those "good dog" documentaries and some lengthy pieces about how women are faring in this country and around the world. <b>You are the right man for this. It took courage to return. Glad to have you back on board in the news community!</b><br />
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I usually cook up standards I know most people enjoy and then introduce a couple of new things for review and comment. It's a conversation starter and since my friends tend to be as opinionated as myself, well, they enjoy weighing in. They even make suggestions to kick it up, tone it down or variations that I might not have considered. Since I value their input it's all done in good fun. For my guests to take home I also make copies of the new recipes with space for them to make notes while we discuss the food. <br />
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The first two drinks up for consideration are old standards with new twists: a Planter's Punch and a Bloody Mary. The new twist for the Planter's Punch is that it has some added Camus Cognac with the apple cider, apple juice and pineapple juice. The new twist for the Bloody Mary is the addition of Lucid Absinthe with the spicy bloody mary mix, worchestershire sauce, horseradish, black pepper, celery salt and garlic salt. These two drinks come from Niccole Trzaska at <a href="http://thelibertynyc.com/"><span style="color: red;"><b>The Liberty Bar</b></span></a> in New York City.<br />
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This appetizer recipe is from Chef Sara Moulton, one of the busiest TV chefs. Check out <a href="http://saramoulton.com/"><b><span style="color: red;">this link to her site</span></b></a> for online cooking classes, links to her TV shows and awesome easy recipes. Sara has enjoyed a long career: a 25-year stint at Gourmet magazine (which had a run from 1941 - 2009), hosted several Food Network shows for a decade, hosts public TV's "Sara's Weeknight Meals" and has written three cookbooks, one of which is "Sara Moulton's Everyday Family Dinners." Whew! All while raising her own family. It's no wonder she specializes in quick and easy food...<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02241236746343420066noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557044191498991737.post-60377287795075965002015-08-27T10:41:00.002-05:002015-10-04T13:15:46.436-05:00Hey, DNI Clapper: Demand Agency Heads Change Profile of IC Hiring To Get Real Productivity<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>From Denny: </b> Listen, Clapper, if your intelligence agency heads keep sending you the same profile over and over, as they have been doing for some time now, quit getting angry about it and just <i>fire their lazy asses</i>. They are still operating on the outmoded and unsuccessful game plan of Andrew Marshall who seriously F'd up both the military and intelligence communities for the past 60 years. The Andrew Marshall idea was to hire just the <i>very</i> young, because, he reasoned, they were the <i>easiest to fool</i> and the <i>easiest to control</i> both mentally and physically. <i>Seriously?</i><br />
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You just can't keep hiring young IT people. <i>Young</i> people don't belong in the ugly intelligence business. IT people are the <i>worst</i> choice because they have rarely developed any people skills. That isn't how their brains move in real time. They certainly don't have much life experience yet either. The skills they do have for technology is great but you only need a handful of them compared to requiring legions of critical thinkers, and, yes, to a lesser extent, some analytical thinkers.<br />
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The field you should be looking at are the Baby Boomers and older. What a shocking revelation? That's right; you should be pulling from the 55 - 85 age group, as long <i>as their minds are sharp</i>. You can teach IT skills to most of them who would be delighted to learn it. Many of them are either underemployed and bored or outright retired and bored, <i>wanting new challenges</i>. And, guess what, they would not be frittering away their days collecting dick pics and spying on nude celebrities like at the NSA...<br />
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Older employees have a consistent work ethic and understand and accept the need for discretion and confidentiality. Many have had families and certainly know all about how young adults behave and move in their world. They wouldn't have much difficulty tracking young terrorists. Certain age groups behave in certain ways because they are driven by particular desires. It's a no-brainer.<br />
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While I'm fussing at you I might as well throw out more unsolicited advice since your own employees at all the intelligence agencies feel constrained to give any: Create diverse groups of different ages and experiences. You definitely need people who have run their own businesses, run big departments of other businesses, and a real must-have are former sales people. <b> People who have worked in sales and customer service know how to read people better than the average person.</b><br />
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You can always flush out each group with one or two IT people, a journalist or two who can write <i>coherent </i>reports, some former military like Special Forces who think another way, and, voila! almost instant success. <br />
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Right now you have too many people who are each other's echo chambers. Too many conservative Republicans. You need some liberal Democrats to challenge their thinking and push them into a broader nuanced perspective.<br />
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<b>Terrorism: All this crap about "you can't stop those lone wolves" is just lazy stinking thinking. </b> Come on; all your lazy IC and the lazy Pentagon are talking about are the mentally ill that <i>can</i> be identified. Of course, to deal with the mentally ill in this country Congress - and whichever President - will have to assist with appropriate gun control laws that will actually be enforced and get a grip on the mental health care system. <br />
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<b>Meanwhile, put hard charging pressure on your incompetent agency heads to end the political atmosphere where the average employee is afraid to challenge the status quo. </b>Think Edward Snowden. He's the <i>one</i> guy who did challenge all the corruption and incompetence and look where it got him: hiding out in Siberia. So, what reputable people will work for the intelligence community if you and President Obama continue to threaten Snowden with death or life in prison just for being a whistleblower? <b>The way most Americans see it is that Snowden did America a huge favor by exposing a lot of the garbage going on that needs a huge clean up.</b><br />
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<b>So far, Clapper, the past year you've done a good job of pushing out and gracefully retiring the worst of the third parties and government employees in the IC. They all were a huge waste of government money down a rabbit hole and totally unproductive.</b> Now do a Donald Trump Dance and challenge the current lazy status quo. Shake things up. Those agency heads that are afraid to hire older workers are the very ones who are afraid because they know they can't fool older people. Older people would catch on quickly to their incompetence and political agendas. Well, that tells you right there to hire new agency heads. <br />
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According to the Jewish calendar September is the New Year. Time for more deep cleaning of useless and unproductive. Look for productive people and quit wasting time being too nice to your agency heads. Nice doesn't always get the job done. Kicking some lazy wimpy butt does. <b>The American people are fed up with incompetent lazy government that is not productive. </b><br />
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<b>Should I loan you my Louisiana baseball bat? You can have it at only 30 percent interest rate. Hey, I have to compete with the Big Banks. </b> This is an unsecured loan and you never know if you will pay it out without default. Just shoot me an email so I know where to send out the application. If you sign up today I'll be happy to include as lagnaippe your very own free can of Cajun Whoop Ass. Don't delay. The American voters might be cuing up to get that same loan. Of course, I'll give them the Fed Reserve rate they give to the Big Banks: a quarter of one percent. A person has to be fair, don't you think?<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02241236746343420066noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557044191498991737.post-11945067935595282282015-08-26T19:21:00.000-05:002015-08-26T19:21:00.546-05:00Dennys Food and Recipes: Summer Food: Raspberry Almond Cheesecake Tartlets<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A springform pan is an absolute must to make a proper cheesecake - and the patience of a saint to leave the oven door cracked open as it slowly cools down for hours so you can hopefully avoid it cracking straight down the middle like an ugly scar. Usually, I've been pretty lucky over the years. Of course, when I wasn't lucky it was evident that a wonderful fruit topping like blueberry or strawberry could hide a multitude of sins just like gravy on a screwed up dinner. :)...<br />
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All the ingredients required are a loaf of good French bread, a full 8 ounces of your favorite brand of cream cheese, milk, maple syrup, butter, sugar and eggs. Add fresh fruit to serve and it's that easy!<br />
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Usually when a recipe calls for sugar I often substitute agave syrup or brown rice syrup or even molasses. If you don't like or can enjoy cow's milk why not substitute almond milk? When butter is in a recipe I choose to clarify it just because we love the extra boost of flavor at our house from browning and filtering out the milk solids - as well as the added health benefits. You could use margarine in this recipe as a substitute too. And, to gild the lily, why not add a few shakes of nutmeg and/or cinnamon, some chopped pecans or walnuts before baking? Yeah, Flavor Town is the name at our house...<br />
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<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">Dennys Food and Recipes: Summer Food: Blueberry Yum Yum Cake Says It All</span><b>: From Denny:</b> This sheet pan cake of creamy goodness only requires two cups of fresh blueberries. First you make a simple syrup of water and sugar, add cornstarch to thicken, then add the blueberries. Set the blueberry topping aside to cool while you create the crust.<br />
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The crust is a yummy combination of finely chopped pecans, butter and flour that you pat into the sheet pan and bake for about 10 to 20 minutes to make your tasty crust. Set aside to cool.<br />
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To make your filling you combine the cream cheese and powdered sugar together and when that is well combined you add in the whipped topping, pouring it into the cooled crust.<br />
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After the blueberry topping has cooled then pour over the cream cheese-powdered sugar-whipping topping mixture. Now set the sheet pan of blueberry goodness into the fridge to chill well. Serve to screams of total delight!...<br />
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The filling calls for fresh blueberries, an apple and lemon juice and lemon zest. While this recipe calls for sugar I often substitute brown rice syrup or agave syrup in its place for a lower glycemic index than refined white sugar. Try it half sugar and half agave as an idea, whatever you like at your house, just try experimenting until you find that sweet spot Goldilocks zone for your taste buds!<br />
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<b>The second recipe</b> <b>is a traditional blueberry cobbler</b> made in a 9-inch square baking pan like you do for brownies and is from a local Louisiana blueberry grower. When a recipe calls for margarine, well, I'm no fan of margarine, so I use clarified butter. If you don't have the time to make your own clarified butter it's now available in grocery stores as I saw a jar in Trader Joe's just last week.<br />
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Also note that I use "Tablespoon" and "teaspoon" as an easier read so you don't get confused by small type - by writing it out instead of an abbreviation and also capitalizing Tablespoon. There have been those moments when I was busy and scan read a recipe only to make a mistake with too much or too little of an ingredient so I changed all my recipes to reflect what I do here on my food blogs. The whole point is to enjoy a good food experience!<br />
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Oh, and the Denny Lyon Gifts ads are from my Cafe Press store. The profits go to my two favorite charities: the Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank that feeds half of Louisiana and St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital that has helped thousands of children on the Gulf Coast. After all, should anyone go hungry in America? Should any parent have to emotionally stress and experience financial ruin because their child got sick? Thank you to those of you supporting my gift store effort!...<br />
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<a href="http://dennysfoodandrecipes.blogspot.com/2015/08/summer-food-deliciously-easy-small.html"><b><span style="color: red;">Dennys Food and Recipes: Summer Food: Deliciously Easy Small Blueberry Cake</span></b></a><b>: From Denny:</b> This is an easy to assemble cake, practically a dump cake after you add together the dry ingredients and milk. You pour the melted butter over the batter without stirring and layer loads of blueberries on top and then bake to get this marbling effect.<br />
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Make sure you are using aluminum free baking powder, an easy find at most grocery stores these days and always at health food stores like Trader Joe's. You could also substitute agave syrup for the white sugar to lower the glycemic index. I'm considering trying it with brown rice syrup to see how it performs so I'll let you know later how that turns out. (First we have to finish off my experiment with a rice pudding recipe that came out quite well.)<br />
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While this recipe calls for Louisiana blueberries there are plenty of other blueberry growers with very delicious berries in Texas, Mississippi and California and other states too. Since blueberries have grown in popularity more farmers have turned to growing them. Get what is local to you so the berries will be fresh. Buy USA berries which supports workers and farmers in America.<br />
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This is a small pan cake (9" x 9") so it is suitable for just a snack for a few friends or a couple of people who regularly cook for two - with leftovers. Oh, that's too bad, you mean there might be more to enjoy for breakfast? This would be wonderful at tea time or a coffee break snack at the office or home as this little cake will travel well for picnics and gatherings too. It would even taste great chilled for the hot summer weather. Blueberries are awesome and healthy!<br />
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Cooling summer desserts come to mind when the weather is uncooperatively too hot. In fact, before the age of air conditioning it was custom to never eat a hot meal. The vegetables were as cold as the meats on the plate. You still see some of that mindset in places like Greece where the concept of a hot vegetable is considered strange. They boil their vegetables and then chill them before even considering offering them to a guest or family. With this kind of outrageous weather the idea sounds good! It certainly takes the stress off the body for getting too hot.<br />
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What?! You've heard enough about the ridiculous hot weather and Greek culture? How about this easy recipe that is kid friendly too that the family could help with this one. This one is easy to assemble as it involves a purchased angel food cake torn into chunks, cream cheese (whipped or not), sweetened condensed milk, a box of Jell-O vanilla pudding, whipping cream, toasted pecans (Louisiana pecans, if you can get them, because they sure are wonderful) and a honking huge quart of fresh blueberries. Remember, this trifle does serve 10 to 12 people. Enjoy!...<br />
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